Friday, November 11, 2005
Note: Some news links may expire one week after posting.Sony Stops Use of Copy Protection Software
Ending two weeks of controversy, Sony BMG has stopped including copy protection software on certain of its music CDs for now. When these CDs were played on a computer's cdrom drive, a stealth program was installed on the user's computer. That was bad enough, but soon hackers had begun exploiting that program to take control of the user's computer. For more consumer news, visit Consumer World.
