RE: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil

From: Chris Merkel (chrism_at_geo-synthetics.com)
Date: 06/18/04

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    To: 'Dragos Ruiu' <dr@kyx.net>, "'bugtraq@securityfocus.com'" <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:37:31 -0500

    FWIW, the Mike D said that he would have preferred that there were no DRM on
    the album, but that it's a standard practice for all EMI releases. Check out
    this post from BoingBoing:

    http://www.boingboing.net/2004/06/11/new_beasties_disc_ha.html

    (Besides, DRM is standard issue nowadays and quite easy to bypass for the
    average bugtraq reader :-)

    - Chris Merkel

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Dragos Ruiu [mailto:dr@kyx.net]
    Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:10 AM
    To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil

    Well I truly regret actually purchasing a copy of the new Beastie Boys album
    to support them.

    It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system,
    that automatically, silently, installs "helpful" copy protection software on
    MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems.
    I'm not sure exactly what it does yet, but I am sure regreting actually
    purchasing said media now... they don't deserve my money if they choose to
    pull stupid stunts like this. Installing software without your permission
    sounds like viral malware behaviour to me. I certainly hope the AV companies
    put signatures into their products for this crap.

    They include some sort of uninstaller buried on there for Windows, but I see
    no such thing for MacOS. If anyone has disassembled the aforementioned
    malware already and can save us some time with instructions on how to remove
    it... thanks in advance.

    caveat emptor,
    --dr 

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