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booster11373

11-09-2005, 11:22 AM

In order to copy protect its content Sony and BMG have producing CD's with copy protection in the form of a root kitFrom WIKI A rootkit is a set of tools frequently used by an intruder after <a title="Security cracking" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Security_cracking">cracking</a> a <a title="Computer system" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Computer_system">computer system</a>. These tools are intended to conceal running processes and files or system data, which helps an intruder maintain access to a system for malicious purposes. Rootkits are known to exist for a variety of operating systems such as <a title="Linux" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Linux">Linux</a>, <a title="Solaris Operating Environment" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Solaris_Operating_Environment">Solaris</a> and versions of <a title="Microsoft Windows" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Microsoft_Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>. Rootkits became more prominent in late 2005, when it was found that Sony/BMG was including them on their music CDsThye kicker is that it was very poorly done and can cause serious harm to your system.this is not a complete list but a start, granted most of these artist suck but i did hear Fez saying he would pick up the Neil Diamond disc so list mifght have a little something for everyone and they wonder why online piracy is running rampent.Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia) Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic) Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia) Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia) Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia) Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia) Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia) The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia) Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia) Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic) Amerie, Touch (Columbia) Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic) Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy) Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy) Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy) The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia) The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic) Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy) Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic) Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia)

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Doctor Manhattan

11-09-2005, 11:31 AM

quote: Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia) Just try and stop me from buying a Ricky Martin CD! 

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bobrobot

11-09-2005, 11:52 AM

All the Music Industry really excels at is fucking over the artists or the consumers.<img title="no sympathy for the music industry" height="277" alt="no sympathy for the music industry" src="http://www.mediation.co.uk/Images/tp_music-industry.gif" width="258" border="0" /><img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/bobogolem/bobonosferatu.jpg" border="0" /> Eastern European, and proud !!!

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KC2OSO

11-09-2005, 11:53 AM

Good luck getting said rootkit off your computer.  I've read
about hacks dropping rootkits on machines but not "legitimate"
sources.  It's basically, as yet, undetectable spyware. 
Nasty shit.  What a bunch of scummers.Note to self:  Cancel all plans to buy Celine Dion CD's.Thanks for the heads-up. 

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JimBeam

11-09-2005, 11:59 AM

When I tried to burn the Velvet Revolver CD to my MP# player it distorted a bunch of the tracks.Not sure if thats something they did intenionally.

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Contra

11-09-2005, 12:01 PM

I have something like that on the new Foo Fighters CD. I'm not sure if it's a rootkit, but I can't copy the CD

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TheMojoPin

11-09-2005, 02:01 PM

Fortunately not the same thing, Contra.

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Mike Teacher

11-09-2005, 02:13 PM

Despite the controversial recent CD copy-protection measures, recent CDs by the Foo Fighters and the Dave Mathews Band which incorporate Sony BMG's copy protection are selling very well with the Foo Fighter's reporting their first week as being their best ever sales for an album.  However, there are quite a lot of angry fans complaining about being unable to put their music on their iPod with about 1/3 of Amazon's 252 customer reviews complaining about the copy protection.  The copy protection only allows up to three CD copies to be made as well as a DRM crippled copy on the customer's PC.Aiming to curb piracy, labels like Sony BMG, which released both records, are rolling out copy-protected albums in the United States, which let users make three exact duplicates of a CD, and store files on a PC in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media format. But the copy-protection bars users from importing music onto iPods since Apple's Fairplay software is incompatible with Windows. "This (Foo Fighters) CD has a copy protection scheme that makes it totally useless to 30 million iPod owners," wrote C. Anderson of Plano, Texas on Amazon.com's customer review link. "How could a band be so stupid as to alienate such a huge percentage of their fans?" About one-third of the 252 customer reviews of the Foo Fighter CD this week on Amazon, which prominently displays the fact the album is a copy-protected CD, complained about the copy protection. Full Article Here: <a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12228">http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12228</a>   <img src="http://members.aol.com/miketeachr/esig" border="0" />    

This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 11-9-05 @ 6:15 PM

torker

11-09-2005, 02:18 PM

I'm on my second spin of Mr. Neil Diamond's 12 Songs.  HELL YEAH!                      <img height="149" src="http://www.soultones.com/diamind/diamond/image7.jpg" width="175" border="0" />

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SatCam

11-09-2005, 06:10 PM

Well... don't buy these cds if you intend on playing them on your computer.  Otherwise they're fine to play. 

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furie

11-10-2005, 04:18 AM

<a href="http://www.unhallowed.com/">These cd's are still safe</a>

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KC2OSO

11-10-2005, 04:38 AM

Whore!  I roll over everything at this site now before clicking.No telling where you'll end up. 

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East Side Dave

11-10-2005, 05:54 AM

Add The Vines' second album to that list. Not because it's copyrighted but because it sucks.

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Skellington

11-10-2005, 07:11 AM

for windows XP users:  hold "shift" while inserting the CD and continue to hold it after it starts reading.  Rip away. The new NIN cd has this stupid crap sony put on it.  You can tell which CD's have it because of the little FBI eagel looking symbol on the back of the CD.  ghey ghey ghey.

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JimBeam

11-10-2005, 07:52 AM

So is that going to be the " new wave " of not allowing people to burn future CDs to an iPod ?Is that a way to screw Apple or is it a way for Apple to come up with another player, costing $500 bucks, that they can sell and make the current iPod obsolete ?

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TheMojoPin

11-10-2005, 09:28 AM

quote: for windows XP users:  hold "shift" while inserting the CD and continue to hold it after it starts reading.  Rip away. The new NIN cd has this stupid crap sony put on it.  You can tell which CD's have it because of the little FBI eagel looking symbol on the back of the CD.  ghey ghey ghey.<img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kriegweasel/stupidshitforlj///halfmonkey3.jpeg" border="0" /> There's nothing duct-tape and a Sharpie can't fix......Actually, that's not the same thing as the toolkits on the Sony CD's being inserted onto your hard drive.  You're just talking about standard anti-copying technology that doesn't actually put anything on your computer. 

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JustJon

11-11-2005, 09:00 AM

The company that created the Rootkit did release a removal program,
but people are complaining it's hard to use to get that shit off. Be
aware that not only have people hacked the rootkit to run game cheats
on World of Warcraft, but there are also at least two trojans/virii
that capitalize on the rootkit.  All a program has to do is have
its name start with "$sys$" and it will become invisible to you and any
other processes. 


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Bulldogcakes

11-13-2005, 12:52 PM

Sony BMG suspends copy-protection software (http://news.ft.com/cms/s/018223e4-52f0-11da-8d05-0000779e2340.html) Sony BMG, the joint venture record label, was on Friday forced into an
embarrassing climbdown over its use of copy-protection technology on
music CDs that exposed some PC users to hackers. 

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Death Metal Moe

11-13-2005, 12:55 PM

quote: <a href="http://www.unhallowed.com/">These cd's are still safe</a> <img src="http://scripts.cgispy.com/image.cgi?u=furie1335" border="0" /> <a href="http://fallingtowardsapotheosis.blogspot.com/">mental vomit</a> This message was edited by furie on 11-10-05 @ 8:19 AMMY MAN!!! Nice. 

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Death Metal Moe

11-13-2005, 12:59 PM

Yea, my question is what do you do if you've already burned these CDs into your comp?  I have the NIN one, but if Mojo is correct, it's just anit-piracy shit and not this other thing.But what if it IS the rootkit?  How does one get rid of it?  I see Jon said there's a removal tool, where can I get it?  Also, how do I know I have it?

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JustJon

11-14-2005, 09:15 AM

<div align="left"><a href="http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html" target="_self">Removal tool</a>Be
aware that there are virii that are taking advantage and you should
definitely try to remove it.  Microsoft is also adding the rootkit
to their anti-spyware software. </div>

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