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balancedchaos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• wikibot@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

  The Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal concerns the copy protection measures included by Sony BMG on compact discs in 2005. When inserted into a computer, the CDs installed one of two pieces of software that provided a form of digital rights management (DRM) by modifying the operating system to interfere with CD copying. Neither program could easily be uninstalled, and they created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware. One of the programs would install and “phone home” with reports on the user’s private listening habits, even if the user refused its end-user license agreement (EULA), while the other was not mentioned in the EULA at all. Both programs contained code from several pieces of copylefted free software in an apparent infringement of copyright, and configured the operating system to hide the software’s existence, leading to both programs being classified as rootkits.

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  • balancedchaos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good bot, if this is how you earn your keep.

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