It's been ten years since Sony Music infected the world with its rootkit

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Yes, Philips was kind of pissed and denied the logo and label Compact Disc Digital Audio to companies making copy-protected CDs.

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Just clamp the cd between two pieces of wood and put on a drill press.

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To be fair, the real villain is the DMCA, which explicitly allowed criminals to conceal their activities in the interests of corporations. However, impeaching the US government on a charge of facilitating crime is unlikely to succeed.

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My mother bought me a Switchfoot CD way back when, which happened to be infected. Worst present ever, in more ways than one.

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Isn’t it a “yay, free malware sample for collection” opportunity? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Just make it known you can unfuck idiot’s laptops :frowning:

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