Copy protection to prevent software/music piracy? This author thinks otherwise and I tend to agree.
Sony's DRM Profile
By Ed Foster, Section Columns
Posted on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 02:49:54 AM PDT
You're probably getting tired of hearing about Sony BMG's rootkit DRM, but one central mystery about it remains to be solved. What was Sony's real motive for what many consider behavior that is awfully close to a criminal act? To answer that question I think we're going to need to borrow a page from the criminal profilers by tracking the company's behavior. Fortunately, we have more than one crime scene to help us with our profile, because it so happens that Sony has been employing more than one form of spywarish DRM in recent months.
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