tapeloop
1959. I try to kick the ball. I miss.
Premium
join:2004-06-27
Airstrip One
| BBR Headline potpourri...
In other news, Sony DRM has being linked to Verizon FIOS delays, Xbox 360° shortages, and the success of SBC IPTV.
Google has also announced plans to use Sony DRM to release Firefox v1.6 via WiMax in Lafayette via the iMesh p2p program through the new Google DVR.
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Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs:
| Sigh
Anything to win a game, and people wonder why I ban them from my CZ server when they start shooting through walls and around corners, and then say " i dont cheat you just suck", riiiiiiiight, I don't see anyone else doing what this person does but "I" suck   |
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jhboricua
ExMod 2000-01
join:2000-06-06
Minneapolis, MN
clubs: | LOL
Oh the irony is too much. |
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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| So how long will it be...
...before WoW releases an anti-drm root kit, only to be countered by Sony releasing an anti-anti-drm rootkit.
Here's an idea to manufacturers. Leave your #$%* crap off MY machines. Your doing nothing to encourage people NOT to steal your content and constant reminders/encouragement to steal it to avoid crap like this.
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"What gives them the right to come in and do this?" she said. - Lady complaining that she was getting FIOS in her backyard. |
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KeepOnRockin
Music Lover Forever
Premium
join:2002-11-08
Beaverton, OR | reply to tapeloop
Re: BBR Headline potpourri...
ROFL!
This is just crazy. All these companies and their bizarre rootkits!
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RayW
Premium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
clubs:
 ·XMission
| reply to tapeloop
said by tapeloop  :In other news, Sony DRM has being linked to Verizon FIOS delays, Xbox 360° shortages, and the success of SBC IPTV. Google has also announced plans to use Sony DRM to release Firefox v1.6 via WiMax in Lafayette via the iMesh p2p program through the new Google DVR. Where did you read that? I can not find it on the web. The Root kit issues yes, but not what you are touting.
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antdude
A Ninja Ant
Premium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
| reply to KeepOnRockin
said by KeepOnRockin :ROFL! This is just crazy. All these companies and their bizarre rootkits! :P Didn't you know Broadband Reports installed rootkits on our computers? [grin] :P |
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Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA
3 edits | Here's the instructions...
Stright from the forum linked in the SecurityFocus article:
1] Buy the [Sony DRM] CD
2] Run the CD
3] rename myhack.exe to $sys$myhack.exe
Done. It works better then the FU rootkit...
Way to go Sony! Now we can hide files just by adding $sys$ to the file name. Poof, they're gone... or are they?
What A-holes.
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joebear29
join:2003-07-20
Alabaster, AL | Why would anybody cheat at WoW?
That is pretty lame. |
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Frohike
Premium
join:2000-07-23
Waxahachie, TX | Why does anyone cheat in any online game? Because they lack the skills to play. |
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Xizer
join:2004-02-05
New York, NY | No, because it's fun to do and it's hilarious watching the people who are too stupid to figure out how to cheat get angry at us  |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to tapeloop
Re: BBR Headline potpourri...
said by tapeloop :In other news, Sony DRM has being linked to Verizon FIOS delays, Xbox 360° shortages, and the success of SBC IPTV. Google has also announced plans to use Sony DRM to release Firefox v1.6 via WiMax in Lafayette via the iMesh p2p program through the new Google DVR. Although I appreciate your humour (good sarcasm is always fun to read), the reason this is in the news is the goober from the company that created the rootkit insisted in an interview yesterday that nobody was exploiting this and it was no big deal.
I find it deliciously ironic that it is being used to hide files from another piece of privacy invading software that people want/need to play a game. |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
·Qwest.net
1 edit | You had all better watch out
The Root Vegetable kit. |
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Underplay
join:2003-10-19
Tacoma, WA | reply to Xizer
Re: Why would anybody cheat at WoW?
I dont think they want to use cheats, considering a 12 year old could pull that off, they just think that you are a dumbass thinking you can do something they cant, while ruining the game. |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD | wow!
now everyone knows where to get a rootkit! Even if they don't have leet skilz. |
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G_Poobah
join:2004-01-17
Schenectady, NY
| DMCA Violation Root Kit
Considering that this tool is being used to bypass a legal protection (blizzard), Sony should be sued under the DMCA by the attorney generals. I mean, if the **AA's can sue people for bypassing copy protection, then I sure as hell want to the the government turn on the big corporation for the same violation.
From the DMCA text : Under Section 1201.(a) VIOLATIONS REGARDING CIRCUMVENTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURES- (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title., and subsection (3) As used in this subsection-- `(A) to `circumvent a technological measure' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner.
Now, the sony DRM is blatantly used to violate the Blizzard protection mechanism. Granted, the original purpose of the device was not to bypass Blizzard, but the law is blind to that fact. The fact of the matter is that people are ACTIVELY SEEKING it out for the SOLE PURPOSE of bypassing blizzards protection.
Now, in the REAL WORLD, the attorney general of the US would sue sony, and seek the maximum pentalties for the corporation AND THE OFFICERS of the company. If the MPAA can sue a grandpa for 600,000.00, then by my count, the number of downloads of the DRM package has far exceeded 10,000, but that's a nice round number to prosecute with. So, 500,000.00 for the first penalty, and 9 billion, 990 million penalty for the subsquent downloads. And all the executives go to the big house. Remember, the only reason the **AA's go for the huge penalties is to make it a deterrence. If they can sue for more than the net worth of a person, please explain why a corporation shouldn't be sued for 500% of it's value. Only the shareholders loose, but hey, they invested in a shady company like sony, and knew the risk they were taking.
How sweet would that be? 
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vannyx
Premium
join:2003-07-07
Bronx, NY
| reply to nasadude
Re: wow!
Microsoft Needs to do something about this stat. No process should be allowed to run on the same level as the OS NONE at least not stealth. Or maybe their are things that go bump in the OS that MS doesnt want people knowing about. What if in addition to the OS MS got Programs that report stuff to them. |
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TeatherWind
join:2001-08-21
Euless, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to G_Poobah
Re: DMCA Violation Root Kit
Gee, I wonder if this means that when I plug my PS3 in to my home network, that it is going to scan my network for for sony files?
Or maybe this is sony's stab trying to take down WOW.. and getting people to move from WOW to EQ2.
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When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" I'll say, "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say "No." |
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ATHF
join:2004-12-20
00000
| reply to Transmaster
Re: You had all better watch out
Where MS in all this aren't they taking advangete of this security hole if anyone can use let it be spyware makers hackers //companies using DRM like sony next could be gamer protection
where our patch dammit
or i'm i getting it all wrong are they using it with permision of M$ or did microsoft use there own hole to protected content cause i know DRM comes from M$ |
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