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Comment Re:Running out of steam? (Score 1) 277

by wilymage on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @09:50PM (#21191689) Attached to: The History of Slashdot Part 4 - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Yeah, well my UID is prime.

So narr.

Rick Rubin Discloses Sony Rootkit Called Home 249

Posted by kdawson on Monday September 03, 2007 @07:48PM from the curiouser-and-curiouser dept.

caffeinemessiah writes "Rick Rubin, the legendary music producer, recently signed on as co-head of Columbia Records, which is owned by Sony BMG. In a recent New York Times interview (on pg. 4 of the online version), he discloses, possibly accidentally: 'It was the highest debut of Neil [Diamond]'s career, off to a great start. But Columbia — it was some kind of corporate thing — had put spyware on the CD. That kept people from copying it, but it also somehow recorded information about whoever bought the record...' Seems like the rootkit might have been a little more than your vanilla invade-your-rights-DRM scheme."

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