[warnerwh]

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1780944,00.html

[PhilNYC]

Looks like Microsoft is going to make efforts to remove it, too:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051115/tc_nm/sonybmg_microsoft_dc;_ylt=Ai8DfPBFoCgmv9ytvs0d5ftT.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[ScottMayo]

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1780944,00.html

A friend of mine, who keeps an eye on both EFF and GNU discussion groups, noticed that Sony is developing a whole new DRM software approach.

The irony is that they are using GNU software. Nothing wrong with that - GNU is free for any use, even commercial, as long as you follow their copyright requirements (In GNU's case, it's called "copyleft").

Except... Sony is not following the copyleft.

So we have the amusing specter of Sony attempting to battle copyright infringement of its products... by... violating... GNU's... copyright.

This isn't hit the mainstream news yet, and I only have my friend's word for it. But I believe it.

[lonewolfny42]

Some further info....infected cd's....

If you have one of these CDs, and you have a Windows PC (Macs are totally immune, as usual), you may have caught the XCP bug.

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)

Several other Sony-BMG CDs are protected with a different copy-protection technology, sourced from SunnComm, including:

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

This is not a complete list.  

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[nai02fungoid]

Sony BMG's new corporate anthem: Benny Hill Theme: The Sony BMG Music fiasco just keeps getting worse (see "Sorry, we thought 'rootkit' was Finnish for 'congratulations on your DRM scheme' "). For the second time in as many months, the company has been forced to admit that the digital rights management technology included on some Sony discs poses a serious security risk to those who play them in their PCs (see "Sony reconsiders policy on hiring 'reformed' hackers"). This security vulnerability is distinct  from the one reported in early November and affects a whole new batch of CDs. "It's a privileged escalation attack," Kurt Opsahl, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the organization that brought the flaw to Sony's attention. "On Windows you can have users with different privileges, and because of security weakness in the permissions of a folder, it allows a low-ranked user to act as a high-ranked user." Unbelievable. Hopefully this meltdown will help the recording industry realize that copy-protection software is bad for everyone, consumers and labels alike.
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[Dan Banquer]

The time is well overdue for the companies involved to realize that no copy protection can work or work for very long before some one breaks the code and decides to publish it all over the net. This kind of crap has been going on for years without resolution, I suspect it will continue.
               d.b.

[nathanm]

Boy, with a list like that I think I'll be using the most effective form of copy protection: abstinence.