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The Beastie Boys and Copy Protection
A couple of articles are reporting that the Beastie's new album is loaded with spyware and/or virii.
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/commen...talls_vir.html
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Here's a different spin on the "DRM" story: The Register discusses a very different approach taken in the new Beastie Boys CD (as compared to the Velvet Revolver DRM). When the disc is inserted into a PC, the disc, "To The 5 Boroughs" surreptitiously installs a virus to prevent ripping the disc to MP3s.
This is an unauthorized hack -- an "executable file is automatically and silently installed on the user's machine when the CD is loaded," According to a recent thread at BugTraq.
No permissions, no disclosures, no authorization. It meets all the definitions of a virus.
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Link to the rest of the article= http://bigpicture.typepad.com/commen...talls_vir.html
Link to the Beastie's lame excuse= http://www.beastieboys.com/news.php
I will never buy another major label CD.
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