Re: (TV) bummer

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <20051209163135.7ba459b4.jh@brainiac.com>, Joe Hartley 
<jh@brainiac.com> writes
> One of the things that made me laugh about Sony's latest DRM debacle is 
> that it's yet another scheme that can be thwarted simply by holding 
> down the shift key when putting the disk in, or by disabling auto-run. 
> Simply amazin'.

I knew that worked for "ordinary" copy-protected cds but this rootkit 
business is something more, isn't it?

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), a part of 
the Department of Homeland Security, advises that you never install CD 
DRM: "Do not install software from sources that you do not expect to 
contain software, such as an audio CD."
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