11.03.05
How far is too far?
How far will music companies go to ‘’protect their digital rights'’?
This article describes a mechanism that SONY uses as a DRM protection scheme on its CD’s, which mechanism is particularly intrusive, and in fact is not being mentioned as such in the EULA. In effect, when you play one of the SONY CD’s protected this way, a bunch of files are installed in your computer, and then go ahead and ‘’cloak'’ themselves, in such a way that any file in the computer with name starting with $sys$ is hidden forever. So there is no way for any casual user of knowing the files are there. Why is that bad? Read the rest of this entry »
