11-09-2005, 11:11 PM
I'm not against some DRM, but the fact is stuff like this just does nothing but harm.
Even with rootkits there would be workarounds for it in hours and the music from the CD was most likly already up on p2p groups even before the CD was released.
Even if it would have been proven to be "safe" it would have given people a false sense of security.
Just imagine you know you bought the CD with that DRM on it and you knew about the rootkit and you decided to put up with it.
Everytime you do a scan it sees it and you don't allow it to be removed. Now imagin what would happen if another rootkit gets installed by someone not so nice and they change some of sonys version. Now you have a rootkit on your system that you think is authentic and you let it just stay there because as you already know it gets picked up by the scan but you have been told its safe. But in fact you are actually wide open to attack.
Even with rootkits there would be workarounds for it in hours and the music from the CD was most likly already up on p2p groups even before the CD was released.
Even if it would have been proven to be "safe" it would have given people a false sense of security.
Just imagine you know you bought the CD with that DRM on it and you knew about the rootkit and you decided to put up with it.
Everytime you do a scan it sees it and you don't allow it to be removed. Now imagin what would happen if another rootkit gets installed by someone not so nice and they change some of sonys version. Now you have a rootkit on your system that you think is authentic and you let it just stay there because as you already know it gets picked up by the scan but you have been told its safe. But in fact you are actually wide open to attack.