Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Sony DRM - Total Recall

The New York Times reported today that Sony is recalling millions of CDs that had the much-maligned DRM that surreptitiously installed a rootkit on the PC of anyone attempting to play the disc.

The home page of Sony BMG Music Entertainment has a boldface link entitled INFORMATION ON XCP CONTENT PROTECTION which "deeply regrets any inconvenience" and offers to replace the offending CDs with ones that do not contain the DRM.

Now we'll see what happens to all the lawsuits.