A new form of Corrupt Disk
SONY has a new form of Corrupt Disk. You can’t play it on your computer on a free operating system. The Digital Restrictions Management let Windows users make a few copies–but the copies are corrupt too, and only Windows can play them.
It works by installing a “rootkit” on Windows computers–that is, software that hides in the system, disguising itself from view while distorting the system’s behavior for someone else’s ends.
The author of that article deserves credit for investigating painstakingly, but he should not have granted any legitimacy to DRM.
SONY is pretending to have corrected the problem–deceptively.
Ironically, only Windows users are affected by this DRM, which is as stupid as it is nasty. Thus, you can avoid the problem by using GNU/Linux instead.
Tracked from Stallman’s Blog
