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Fri, 11 Nov 2005
Sony Root-kit allegedly is an LGPL license violation

Some of you might have already read it, Sony distributes a 'root kit' with their DRM-encumbered 'copy protected' Cd's. This basically allows Sony to control your computer, once you've installed the software contained on on of their audio Cd's.

While this in itself is already a security nightmare (especially since they don't inform and/or warn the user about this), it gets even worse: According to a number of sources, this software even contains a statically linked version of the LGPL licensed liblame homepage.

I guess this gives a really strong measure: In order to protect our valuable copyright on proprietary music, we don't give anything about the copyright of others, such as authors of free software.

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