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Double OOPS;
Talk about being up to your A$$ in it 
Dr. Mordrid
A major label's latest attempt to protect its music from pirates has become a major problem for Sony BMG Music Entertainment – a problem that has sparked at least two class action suits, forced the label to recall CDs by as many as 50 artists, and may result in (US) states bringing charges against the record label.
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Plus, when you consider that government employees, including members of the military, might play CDs on their computers, Sony's rootkit debacle is probably going to get a lot worse before it gets better. That is, if it gets better.
While not referring to Sony by name, Homeland Security assistant secretary for policy Stewart Baker did have some harsh words for labels that protect their music by installing hidden files on computers.
"It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property, it's not your computer," Baker said during a conference on, ironically, intellectual property piracy. "And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days."
When you consider all the implications – making computers vulnerable to virus attacks, placing hidden files on consumers' machines and generating more bad press in two weeks than most companies accrue in a lifetime, what were the execs at Sony thinking when they greenlighted First 4 Internet's XCP copy protection technology?
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Plus, when you consider that government employees, including members of the military, might play CDs on their computers, Sony's rootkit debacle is probably going to get a lot worse before it gets better. That is, if it gets better.
While not referring to Sony by name, Homeland Security assistant secretary for policy Stewart Baker did have some harsh words for labels that protect their music by installing hidden files on computers.
"It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property, it's not your computer," Baker said during a conference on, ironically, intellectual property piracy. "And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days."
When you consider all the implications – making computers vulnerable to virus attacks, placing hidden files on consumers' machines and generating more bad press in two weeks than most companies accrue in a lifetime, what were the execs at Sony thinking when they greenlighted First 4 Internet's XCP copy protection technology?
Dr. Mordrid
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