{"id":1333,"date":"2005-11-17T18:28:33","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T22:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2005-11-17T18:28:33","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T22:28:33","slug":"that-sony-rootkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"That Sony rootkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a big piece on IP going into Saturday&#8217;s <em>Guardian.<\/em> I&#8217;m not very happy about it, because I think it misses an important point about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/sonys_drm_rootk.html\">Sony&#8217;s rootkit<\/a>, one of the most egregious examples of corporates taking ownership of things we consider our own, like the computers we have bought.<\/p>\n\n<p>It is going to be a huge PR disaster for Sony, since the software opens one security hole, the removal kit another, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/?p=927\">even bigger<\/a> one; and the whole thing turns out to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-interweb.com\/serendipity\/index.php?%2Farchives%2F52-Is-Sony-in-violation-of-the-LGPL-Part-II.html\" title=\"v nerdy detailed link\">a violation of copyright<\/a> itself, since it contains, in a delicious irony, portions of the (copyright protected) <span class=\"caps\">DVD<\/span>-playing program that got the Norwegian teenager Jan Johansen pursued into court by the record industry.<\/p>\n\n<p>But only this afternoon did I see the really important point. This wasn&#8217;t aimed at consumers at all. The particular target appears to have been Apple (some of the stolen <span class=\"caps\">GPL <\/span>code was there to detect Apple software). They really did not want these songs ripped to iPods. The customers&#8217; computers were merely the battlefield for these two unlovely corporations to fight their <span class=\"caps\">DRM <\/span>wars on.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a big piece on IP going into Saturday&#8217;s Guardian. I&#8217;m not very happy about it, because I think it misses an important point about Sony&#8217;s rootkit, one of the most egregious examples of corporates taking ownership of things &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1333\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1333\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}