Its official. Our next DRM demonstration is on Wednesday, November 30th 2005 at Tower Records at 7pm on East 4th Street and Broadway in New York City. Check out the wiki that we’ve set up here for our protests for the flyer and more information. Here’s a preview of our new flyer that mentions [...]
My theory is that Warner (and the rest of the television industry) doesn’t want to make the same mistakes that their older (as well as rage filled) sister made by suing everyone on the net into oblivion before they realize the utility and profit potential of the Internet. So they’re planning on releasing thousands of [...]
Quite a bit has been happening! First of all, virus/trojan writers have started leveraging the rootkit to hide their malware:
First Trojan using Sony DRM spotted
Sony is also being sued:
Sony hit by lawsuits over root kit
AV vendors also have started releasing tools to remove the rootkit-like portions of the XCP software, such as Sophos. [...]
Here’s something a little different…Hollywood is planning to push for film distributors to embed an inaudible watermark in the soundtracks of films released to theaters. Then, if approved by the DVD Forum, HD DVD players would be required to have a special sensor that listens for the watermark and refuses playback if it is [...]
Here is the detailed article about the new DRM Sony is using that I talked about at last night’s meeting:
Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far
For those that weren’t there, it’s about this new DRM software which uses a poorly-designed rootkit to completely mask its presence on your system. Not only does [...]