Looks like someone at Sony was feeling a little pressure.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/03/HNsonypatch_1.html?source=NLC-TB2005-11-03
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 01:00 -0700, Dragos Neagu wrote:
> On 11/1/05, Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
> > http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
> >
> > It's long but impressive both in the knowledge of the guy writing it and
> > the results he found.
>
> I read it earlier today as well, and I have to agree with you on that.
> (*hearts rss*) When I sent the link to a friend, it was 404'd though.
>
> > Food for thought. DRM: Exactly whose rights does it benefit?
>
> [rant]greedy media execs, the scurge of society, who refuse to
> progress and tie a ball and chain to everyone.[/rant]
> I found it funny about 2 weeks ago that Steve Jobs was saying that
> record labels wanted to jack up prices (they already take ~60% of a
> sale!), and almost a day or two later Microsoft ended talks with them
> over large licensing fees. I think that media and IT companies will
> continue to butt heads in the future.
>
> On a side note, I came across some nice linux htpc tutorials which
> eventally brought me to mythtv. They look really nice, and some have
> setup xbox front ends/clients (something useful if i get a new
> console) Anyone have a mythtv setup? How do you like it?
> --
> -Dragos Neagu <><
> "If I have been able to see farther, it was only because I stood on
> the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton
> "Open source is like science, closed source is like witchcraft" - Linus Torvalds
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