As it turns out, the ActiveX uninstaller for the Sony CD software may in fact open up even more dangerous holes in your system. Fortunately, when I went to Muzzy’s rather exhaustive analysis of the Sony software and then ran the test, I found that my computer was okay. Nevertheless, I have taken [...]
There are several reasons I don’t blog about work but reading some about Mark Jen’s short stay at Google is one of them. I changed jobs on September 1st of this year and yet I have yet to mention it (other than my reference to writing resignation letters).
Perhaps I am a little [...]
In what is clearly a temporary victory for music loving folks Sony BMG is going to stop releasing CD’s with their XCP-based copy protection software. So in short, I was right!
I had also promised that I would talk more about the uninstall from my computer. After going to one of the [...]
As promised earlier, somehow or another, I had said the major media would be picking up the Sony Music story. And now it has happened as FoxNews.com and others report concerning California’s lawsuit against Sony BMG Music. Meanwhile, I went the process of asking Sony Music’s permission to uninstall their software, obtaining permission [...]
I don’t know how to say it other than “Sony is Busted”. Thanks to Mark Russinovich (ht: Brandon) there is some seriously solid proof that the Sony DRM (copy-protected) CD’s not only are a pain the butt (see my previous article 1 and article 2) but now it appears that the software contained on [...]