Boycott Sony cd's

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Peter Seiler said:
Mike Bourke - 11.11.2005 14:22 :

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Mike, is it really useful and necessary reposting mostly with full
quotings - in this case over 200! quoting lines again? Everybody may
read back the thread.
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Knowing how much to snip is a black art that I have yet to master. When in
doubt, my principle is to leave it all. Your presumption ("everybody may
read back the thread") is not necessarily valid, however - There have been
cases where for whatever reason not every server gets and/or retains every
message posted to a newsgroup. You can check every day and still find holes.
Not that that in any way justifies complete quoting of every past message in
a thread, I hasten to add.

Mike
 
ellis_jay said:
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/

The 20 offending cd's so far:
http://slashdot.org/~xtracto/journal/121088

the link not found can be found here:

http://sstern.ccim.com/2005/11/11/homeland-security-and-sony-rootkit/

just click on the Washington post link to read it
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Thanks for that. Not sure what happened with those links, I tested them and
they were working when I posted them.

Here are some more updates (and I hope THESE links work!):

http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/
While this contains some old news, the list of remnants left behind after
using Sony's "uninstall" is quite disturbing.

And,

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1886122,00.asp

Mike Bourke
 
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:55:33 -0500, in alt.comp.freeware, Al Klein
<[email protected]>, by way of Message-id

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Maybe I've gotten a little slow with age, but I couldn't find any
"direct .zip file" at http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp. In fact, looking at
the raw html, there's no ".zip" anywhere on the page. What's the url
of the zip file?

Software Updates (http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html)
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Perhaps there (zip/exe?)
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Hmmm. A 1.5 meg, third-party executable. Yes, I trust Sony. Wanna
buy a bridge? :)
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Made in Japan? <g>
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Nah, in Brooklyn. :)
 
Knowing how much to snip is a black art that I have yet to master. When in
doubt, my principle is to leave it all.
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The old rule about documentation holds true here. If it's there, you
aren't forced to read it. If it's not there, you can't read it.
 
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:55:33 -0500, in alt.comp.freeware, Al Klein
<[email protected]>, by way of Message-id

[snip]

Maybe I've gotten a little slow with age, but I couldn't find any
"direct .zip file" at http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp. In fact, looking at
the raw html, there's no ".zip" anywhere on the page. What's the url
of the zip file?

Software Updates (http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html)
-

Perhaps there (zip/exe?)
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Hmmm. A 1.5 meg, third-party executable. Yes, I trust Sony. Wanna
buy a bridge? :)
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Made in Japan? <g>
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If it is made in Japan, it's one of the last pieces of SONY crap that
are. Most of their junk is made in China now.
 
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:19:02 -0600, in alt.comp.freeware, Vic Dura
<[email protected]>, by way of Message-id
wrote: said:
If it is made in Japan, it's one of the last pieces of SONY crap that
are. Most of their junk is made in China now.
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Oh how the mighty are fallen. Made in Japan/Made in China/Made in ..... ?
 
The old rule about documentation holds true here. If it's there, you
aren't forced to read it. If it's not there, you can't read it.
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Here's a classic (from which group I don't recall; sorry) :-)

"'Tis far better to have snipped too much than to never have snipped at all."
 
Here's a classic (from which group I don't recall; sorry) :-)
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"'Tis far better to have snipped too much than to never have snipped at all."
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True, but 'tis far better to have snipped nothing than to have snipped
the whole point.

Snipping is an art. Quickly learned, but it must be learned.
 
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:23:48 GMT, (e-mail address removed) wrote:

The whole isue has now made the NY Times:

1. From the Desk of David Pogue: Sony BMG's Copy-Protecting
Watchdog
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These CD's, all bearing "Content Protected" labels on the
packaging (meaning "copy protected"), do something very
sneaky if you try to play them on a Windows PC: they install
a proprietary watchdog program that prevents you from copying
the CD more than twice. (On a Macintosh or Linux machine,
these CD's play just fine, without any copy protection.)
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According to reports linked from the news article at
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27631>, the Sony CDs in question
also put DRM copy-protection controls onto Macintosh computers by
installing kernel extensions.

<snip>
 
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