The Opposite of Normal

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Thursday, November 10, 2005

More More Sony DRM News

Several companies/states are suing Sony for putting DRM on CDs -- one of those states being the state of California, for violation of the consumer spyware protection act. Also, viruses/worms that take advantage of the security holes the Sony DRM automatically and silently installs on your computer have now cropped up in the wild.

Consequently, if you have a Windows computer, haven't explicitly turned off autorun, and have played any of the following CDs on your computer:

Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)
Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)
Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)
Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)
Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)
Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)
Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)
The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)
Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)
Amerie, Touch (Columbia)
Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)
Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy)
Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)
Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)
The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)
The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)
Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)
Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)
Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia) (labeled as XCP, but, oddly, our disc had no protection)

And possibly:

My Morning Jacket, Z
Santana, All That I Am
Sarah McLachlan, Bloom Remix Album

you are probably infected.

On a side note, if you got infected from the Celine Dion CD... You got what you deserve.

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