If Something Tampers With Your Computer…
And installs a program that:
Provides no explicit means of uninstalling it,
Hides its presence completely, and
While hiding itself, goes all the way to modifying low-level behavior of your operating system…
That's gotta be a computer virus or something, eh?
[ It's a music CD, made by Sony. ]
Warning: Laden with technical details
Lesson of the day: Do not buy “copy-protected” music CDs whenever possible.
Courtesy of zqfmbg.
You know what's funny?
Disabling AutoRun on your CD/DVD drives will now be considered as DMCA violation!
Hooray the world we live in.
_-_
I remember the first batch of copy protected CDs. Beaten by a felt tip marker :P.
Such bullshit -_-. There was a story I read a while back, about a group that was unaware that their CD was copy protected.
So they released ripping instructions to their website/forum.
It was a happy day :-). I'd like to know if their label (some Sony Music offspring) tried to do something to them.