Sony's XCP rootkit has stolen source code from LAME (LGPL) and source code from libmpg (GPL) and source code for id3lib (LGPL) pushing the maximum amount Sony can be fined JUST IN THE US for its GPL violations to more than $1,350,000,000,000.
I hope they have to pay every penny....
I also saw that they are doing exchange progam on these CDs. I think I will wait for the class-action suit myself....
georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:Sony's XCP rootkit has stolen source code from LAME (LGPL) and source code from libmpg (GPL) and source code for id3lib (LGPL) pushing the maximum amount Sony can be fined JUST IN THE US for its GPL violations to more than $1,350,000,000,000.
I see Nelson from Simpsons going <span style='color:blue'><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>HA HA!</span></span>
Quote:Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG's Global Digital Business President, attempted to do just that by dismissing the online protests. "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" he said in a November 4 interview on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. He added, "The software is designed to protect our CDs from unauthorized copying and ripping."
Are you kidding me? I'm guessing there was no
malicious intent, but what gall!
<a href='http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174300636' target='_blank'>For those who don't know what this is about.</a>
<a href='http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051121/ap_on_hi_te/sony_copy_protection_4;_ylt=ApazG.gIxJqZMGqW8N7T4mjJ2sUA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl' target='_blank'>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051121/ap_on_...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl</a>
Not that it is endearing to see that the money would go to the state of TX (or any state) but we're talking about balancing trade deficits here folks... :wave:
Bourgeois_Rage Wrote:Quote:Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG's Global Digital Business President, attempted to do just that by dismissing the online protests. "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" he said in a November 4 interview on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. He added, "The software is designed to protect our CDs from unauthorized copying and ripping."
Are you kidding me? I'm guessing there was no malicious intent, but what gall!
<a href='http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174300636' target='_blank'>For those who don't know what this is about.</a>
aha, so it is a cyber geeks unite kinda thing. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: