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From Digg.com:

Mark Russinovich has another article about the dangerous patch that released by SONY/BMG. He also confirms that the malware sends something back to SONY’s server. Make sure to take a look at the comment posted by XCP support. It basically says … TRUST us in everything we did.

More news from Mark over at Sysinternals regardings Sony and their dastardly DRM rootkit. FTA:

But, there’s more to the story, like how Sony’s patch can lead to a crashed system and data loss and how Sony is still making users jump through hoops to get an uninstaller.

Oh great, an already buggy rootkit that comprimises system security and now the patch can cause you to loose data. Thanks Sony really! We all appreciate what you are doing for us in the world. Mark also goes into the details of the information that is phoned home as well, nothing too evil, but the implications are just obsurd. Trust me Sony, never will I buy a disc from a band you sign.

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From Digg.com:

Found this and thought it was interesting. Seems the program copies the audio while it’s being played, probably as some sort of driver. Supposed to allow you to convert any DRMed audio file to an clean MP3/OGG/WMA file.

From the website of Tunebrite:

• Automatically records copy-protected music while it is being played in the Windows Media Player© or Apple iTunes©.player; automatically saves recordings in unprotected, digital quality MP3, OGG and WMA formats.
• Leverages High Speed Digital Dubbing for turbo-speed recording.
• Supports listening to other music during the recording process, independent from sound card functionality.
• Recognizes when music is being played and automatically records it (background mode).
• Automatically configures recording levels and devices.
• Supports automatically recording large volumes of music (batch mode).
• Automatically saves track title, artist and album name (ID3 tag compatible).
• Records using the standard volume level of the entire music collection (normalization).
• Allows music tracks to be saved in various folders based on artist and album.
• Displays the optimum recording level on an oscilloscope monitor while recording.

Sounds like an interesting little program… well, at least if it works. Don’t have any DRM crippled media myself. All my bands are small and don’t have huge record labels attempting to force them to screw over their fans. If anyone tries out the program and it works let me know.

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