More Sony DRM Hijinks - Now It's MediaMax

Posted by tuxchick on Nov 15, 2005 8:36 AM EDT
Groklaw; By Pamela Jones
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Oh, swell. Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, here comes another report of Sony DRM anti-customer treachery. J. Alex Haldeman on Freedom to Tinker describes in detail yet another DRM scheme from Sony, SunnComm's MediaMax. It's not a rootkit this time, like XCP. He calls it spyware. While Sony has said it has temporarily halted shipments of the XCP rootkit, it hasn't promised to stop shipping CDs with this junk on it, from all I can determine. Haldeman describes how it works at length, but here's the executive summary:

[Ed.- If it weren't for PJ, where would we see this sort of vigilance and in-depth reporting? - tuxchick]

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