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Offline GhostShip

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« on: February 17, 2006, 10:55:10 am »
More news on ths Sony Trojan fiasco

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1097

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In response to the enormous pressure felt by the public, including several class action lawsuits with the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Sony-BMG finally settled on the proposed demands on December 30, 2005. The legal action brought about by the Attorney General of the State of Texas, however, remains unresolved.

The first visible signs of this settlement were announced today, as Sony-BMG is now accepting claims based on the copy protected CDs. As part of the settlement, anyone who purchased a Sony-BMG CD with either SunnComm or First4Internet’s copy protection software can submit a claim. Providing the claim is approved, Sony-BMG will exchange, at no cost, the copy protected CD with a copy free of any DRM.

"This settlement gives consumers what they thought they were buying in the first place -- clean, safe music that will play on their computers and their iPods as well as their stereo systems," said EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl.



Wheres the compensation and removal costs for an installed trojan ? ?
This is not really good enough as far as I,m concerned.

Offline Scyre

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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2006, 01:19:26 am »
I agree. Although it is a move towards the right direction, there still is a lot of trouble that many are going to have that cannot just be swapped out with a CD.

I would guess that many people will continue to have the rootkits installed on their system for a long time not even being aware of them.

And a 70 yr old grandmother cannot be expected to remove something like that without the expense of a technician coming out to take care of it for her. (Yes, some exceptions will exist lol)

Nice start, but I would like to see them re-emburse each case completely.

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Lysander

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« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2006, 01:26:44 am »
To be fair, removal is really easy, all you have to do is know about it and then you can click your way to the company uninstallers. It's not like in October when you had to go into safe mode to manually delete every single registry key and then fix your newly-broken CD drive. The only isue is letting the public know it's a problem, and as long as they circulate notices through the banner ads they so conveniently put into the propriitary music player I thhink they're doing all they could reasonably be asked to. (You're still free, incidentally, to sue Sony if your computer gets irrevocably compromised as a result of having the rootkit on the system.) (and GS, please stop calling it a trojan. It's not a trojan. Trojans deliberately open up ports for malicious users to connect to to take control of your computer; the rootkit accidentally makes it possible for other trojans to hide themselves, and sends some information back to Sony about what you're listening to. The former is a glaring oversight that should have never made it past beta testing, the latter is common practice of all sorts of websites ranging from ad sites to Microsoft.)

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« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2006, 07:35:11 pm »
actually, a trojan is (as per the source of the name) anything that is not what it seems, something bad hidden within something innocent looking to trick people

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