Sony Update

• It will contact Sony (phone home) with the ID of the CD being played
• You can actually use it against itself, have the rootkit hide your CD ripping program.
• An Italian lawyer has filed suit (translation) against Sony on behalf of the Italian equivalent of the EFF.

Posted By Mike On Monday, November 07, 2005
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Michael C. Neel, born 1976 in Houston, TX and now live in Knoxvile, TN. Software developer, currently .Net focused. Board member of ETNUG and organizes CodeStock, East Tennessee's annual developers conference. .Net speaker, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. Co-Founder of FuncWorks, LLC and GameMarx.

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