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Re: Microsoft will wipe Sony's 'rootkit' and more My "hip shot" answer on this is that I don't care personally. If the copy-protection scheme is what SONY paid good mopney for, then their BS player will check for the presence or absence of the "licensing controller" and SHOULD refuse to play if it isn't there. Any failure to this scheme would be THEIR fault as I see it. Now I will SAY that I've *HEARD* that if the copy-protection is absent on the system, then it will NOT play, but it's not my place to care about that. If SONY bought a defective copyright management program, then that's between SONY and their vendor. The way *I* see it is that if software is legitimate, we leave it alone. If it's MALWARE, we yank it. Doesn't get any simpler than that to me. 
But if their encryption scheme is so poorly designed, NOT my problem. I *do* believe though that in the absence of their trash, the CD will NOT play on a computer without their "software" ... apologies, I really don't care. It's not like WE are providing something similar to "DeCSS" where there is active tampering with the encryption to permit copying, that's NOT what we're about. THIS software is beyond "malicious" by its nature, as Russinovich (SP?) clearly proved to everyone's satisfaction except for attorneys.
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