[extropy-chat] sony messing up computers

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, spike wrote:

> This is a hell of a note.  Sony wrote a virus to stop piracy,

... which, ironically, seems to breach the copyright of
the MP3 encoder Lame, which appears to have been included
in the root kit without abiding by the license:

http://www.dewinter.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=215

Sony's software appears to be "piracy software", not anti-piracy ;)

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