[OT] Sony + DRM = RootKit??

[Jerry McBride]

On Thursday 03 November 2005 11:05, Federico Voges wrote:
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051101-5514.html
>
> I wonder if you can play those CDs using Linux or Mac OS X (probably not).
>
> Cheers,
> Fed.
> 

Hi Fed,

They play perfectly under linux. 

On the sage advice of my 12 year old son, I  bought SWITCHFOOT, NOTHING IS 
SOUND music cd today. It's on the list of being one of Sony's copy protected 
releases and took it home. Once popped into my linux box, I was able to play 
it like ordinary music cd's. I was even able to run cdmp3 across the disk and 
rip the songs to mp3 and put them on the family music server for my son to 
play.

I haven't bother to try this on a windows machine yet, but I HIGHLY suspect 
that if you turn off the autorun feature you won't have much problems using 
it there too.

Cheers.

P.S.Since Sony chose not to hamper the playing of their cd's on the linux 
platform :'), I'll continue buying their products.
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