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Talking about digital rights management (DRM) is a sure-fire way to start an argument among computer techies. So I'm won't talk about the rights and wrongs of DRM. Rather, a recent case of its implementation has raised some interesting issues.
Recently, Sysinternals and F-Secure reported on a DRM system used by Sony to protect music CDs (see www.sysinternals.com blog and www.f-secure.com/weblog). While protected CDs are nothing new, this particular case was interesting as the DRM software used the same sort of techniques used by "rootkits", tools often used by computer criminals to hide their tracks.
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