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Sony-baloney
Scott Granneman, 2005-11-22

The big story the last few weeks has been the Sony BMG rootkit and in fact, it's the kind of story for which columnists drool: a big company does something unbelievably dumb that violates basic security principles. If you don't know what I'm talking about (and if you really don't, I'm amazed - you need to follow the news more!), you can read excellent coverage on SecurityFocus, plus a good write-up on Wired, or catch up with a timeline of events brought to you by Boing Boing (parts one, two and three).

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Sony-baloney 2005-11-29
Anonymous
Regarding the LGPL and GPL violations, open-sourcing their rootkit code would only get them off the hook for future distribution of the code in question. The copyright owners of the code may accept this as enough not to pursue Sony over their previous copyright infringement in distributing the code...

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