Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil

From: Shaun Lipscombe (shaun.lipscombe_at_gmsl.co.uk)
Date: 06/17/04

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    * Dragos Ruiu wrote:

    > 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.

    Did you hold the shift button down to cancel the Autoplay functionality
    of Microsoft Windows? 

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