List of CD’s affected by the Sony-BMG spyware

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The Sony rootkit tale, thankfully, is quickly gaining momentum in the mainstream press. The rootkit, for the unaware, is a piece of malware/spyware that installs itself deep within Windows to protect the contents of the music CD. Sony-BMG would have you believe that only “20 CD titles use this form of copy protectionâ€. You’d like to believe that after getting emberassed about using a rootkit to protect their music, that Sony Executives would come clean about how many releases are ‘infected’ by the spyware.

Well, your either wrong, or somewhat right, depending on how you look at the situation.

The list I have cobbled together, includes a whopping 47 new releases. Thats right, 47. And to be honest, there could be more. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the list, other than the fact that they were all released within the last 6 months. There are a few names, but to be honest the most are artists that I’ve never heard of.
Foo Fighters - In Your Honour
Van Zant - Get Right with the Man
Ricky Martin - Life
Sarah McLachlan - Bloom Remix Album
Celine Dion - On Ne Change Pas
Neil Diamond - 12 Songs
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Santana - All That I Am
Chris Botti - To Love Again
Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound
Patty Loveless - Dreamin' My Dreams
Montgomery Gentry - Something To Be Proud Of: The Best of 1999-2005
Mary Mary - Mary Mary
My Morning Jacket - Z
David Gray - Life In Slow Motion
Bob Brookmeyer - Bob Brookmeyer & Friends
Shelly Fairchild - Ride
Kasabian - Kasbian
Pete Seeger - The Essential Pete Seeger
The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity
Elkland - Golden
Susie Suh - Susie Suh
Buddy Jewel - Times Like These
Chayanne - Cautivo
A Static Lullaby - Faso Latido
Our Lady Peace - Healthy In Paranoid Times
The Coral - The Invisible Invasion
Dexter Gordon - Manhattan Symphonie
Acceptance - Phantoms
Dion - The Essential Dion
The Dead 60s - The Dead 60s
Goapele - Change It All
Los Lonely Boys - TBD
Life of Agony - Broken Valley
George Jones - My Very Special Guests
Horace Silver - Silver's Blue
Amici Forever - Defined
Ahmed Jamal - The Legendary Okeh and Epic Recordings
Anna Nalick - Wreck of the Day
Hitch - Soundtrack
Charlotte Martin - On Your Shore
Vivian Green - Vivian
Raheem DeVaughn - The Love Experience
Amerie - Touch
Nivea - Complicated
Mario - Turning Point
So how on earth could Sony get away with this outright fabrication? The answer may luy in how you view the relationship between Sony, and their sister and sub-companies. Sony-BMG Music Entertainment, is a 50/50 joint venture that comprises several labels such as: Sony (duh!), Arista, Jive, Epic, Columbia, and several more. Those 47 albums, are comprised of releases across all these sub labels.

One example of this is Sarah McLachan’s new release, Bloom Remix Album. Despite being released by Arista records, a number of customer are complaining of very similar issues.

So it seems Sony is using the vast umbrella of all their business to feed their DRM monster.

 

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The President of Sony BMG's global digital business division Thomas Hesse has weighed into the storm over the 'rootkit'-style copy restriction software introduced on some recent audio CDs.

Sony's software installs itself by stealth, conceals itself, then intercepts low level Windows systems calls. Removing it causes the CD drive to be rendered inoperable. The only cure is to reformat the disk and reinstall Windows.

What responsibility did Hesse feel for the havoc his CDs had caused?

"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" he huffed.

I think we can take that as: "No responsibility at all."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/09/sony_drm_who_cares/

Also, The Washington Post quotes Sony's now CEO as saying in 2001 that it would cheer him up to dispatch a virus to evidently punish those who illegally copy music.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/47289.html