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and isent there a patch out now that makes your computer immune to sonys rootkit? ...patching seems more reasonable than ripping out everybodys cd drive...
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This just means that media producers have nowbecome non trustable for computing. CDA until now was considered harmless because it was assumed that mass producersof these CDs would not violate the confidence of their customers using unfair practices. But now, they are considered as much untrustable as any roguesoftware maker. And companies do not have the tools to control the legality of licences for medias.
What is worse is that these rootkits arereally softwares installed without being visible in software licencing control systems. The whole computing system becomes untrustable because it becomes impossible to know exactly what is running on it and if it's legal or not. So companies are placed at risk of false alarms for alleged copyright violations, without the most basic tools to verify the claims. This is where Sony/BMG may be sued for racketing (due to unverifiable claims). But I don't know if such action has occured anywhere.