Blackhacker

1. Batteries that ignite
2. rootkit CDs
3. Blue-Ray Falling behind HD-DVD.
4. The delay of PS3
5. Add to that the Nintendo Wii, is handing them their hind quarters, after removing it from their sneaker, in their own back yard

BetaNews | PS3 Falls Further Behind in Japan
apanese gaming magazine company Enterbrain said that the PS3 had only managed to sell 45,321 units in May, far less than the Wii’s 251,794 units during the month of May, a five-to-one margin. In April, the Wii was outselling the PS3 by a four-to-one ratio.

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Rootkit class action settled: time to submit your claim
Engadget

EFF Urges Consumers to Claim Clean CDs and Extra Downloads

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging music fans who purchased Sony BMG music CDs containing flawed digital rights management (DRM) to submit their claims now for clean CDs and extra downloads as part of a class action lawsuit settlement.

“This settlement gives consumers what they thought they were buying in the first place — clean, safe music that will play on their computers and their iPods as well as their stereo systems,” said EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl.

Anyone who purchased Sony BMG CDs that included First4Internet XCP and SunnComm MediaMax software can receive the same music without DRM. Some will also get downloads of other Sony BMG music from several different services, including iTunes. Music fans have through the end of the year to participate in the settlement, and they should receive their compensation within six to eight weeks of submitting their claim forms. Customers can find out more about the settlement and how to submit their claims at http://www.eff.org/sony.
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Sony introduced a DRM technology that automatically installs on you PC, called XCP. The idea was that it would interject an keep you from ripping the CDs. It is installed when you try to play a CD with the software on it. Another word for this type of software is a rootkit. The story was broke by blogger and hacker Mark Russinovich No small uproar went through the Internet.

The outcry was so great that on Nov. 11, Sony announced it was temporarily halting production of that copy-protection scheme. That still wasn’t enough — on Nov. 14 the company announced it was pulling copy-protected CDs from store shelves and offered to replace customers’ infected CDs for free.

But that’s not the real story here.

It’s a tale of extreme hubris. Sony rolled out this incredibly invasive copy-protection scheme without ever publicly discussing its details, confident that its profits were worth modifying its customers’ computers. When its actions were first discovered, Sony offered a “fix” that didn’t remove the rootkit, just the cloaking. (from wired)

Not only that but it left a security vulnerability. As you may realize people play CDs EVERY FREAKING WHERE there is PC. That’s why the rootkit was found on DOD and Dept. of Homeland Security PCs. It is estimated that 1,500,000 computers world wide are infected.

What do you think of your antivirus company, the one that didn’t notice Sony’s rootkit as it infected half a million computers? And this isn’t one of those lightning-fast Internet worms; this one has been spreading since mid-2004. Because it spread through infected CDs, not through Internet connections, they didn’t notice? This is exactly the kind of thing we’re paying those companies to detect — especially because the rootkit was phoning home.

Phoning home means that the rootkit was contacting Sony though the Internet.

Lastly, it turns out that Sony’s rootkit was based on software developed by DVD Jon who’s broke Sony’s encryption and release a program on the Internet that allowed someone to rip DVDs. (link)

So to answer the the question in the title :

YOU BLACK AS &@$$ !!!

list of CDs said to have XCP:1 2 3

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