Beastie Boys new CD...Silent DRM install?

**Kane Knight** · 06-20-2004, 12:12 PM

http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/index.php?p=2099

It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system, that automatically, silently, installs �helpful� copy protection software on MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems. I�m not sure exactly what it does yet, but I am sure regreting actually purchasing said media now� they don�t deserve my money if they choose to pull stupid stunts like this. Installing software without your permission sounds like viral malware behaviour to me. I certainly hope the AV companies put signatures into their products for this crap.

They include some sort of uninstaller buried on there for Windows, but I see no such thing for MacOS.

06-20-2004, 12:12 PM	#1
Kane Knight Ron Paul 4 EVA Posts: 152,467	Beastie Boys new CD...Silent DRM install? http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/index.php?p=2099 It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system, that automatically, silently, installs �helpful� copy protection software on MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems. I�m not sure exactly what it does yet, but I am sure regreting actually purchasing said media now� they don�t deserve my money if they choose to pull stupid stunts like this. Installing software without your permission sounds like viral malware behaviour to me. I certainly hope the AV companies put signatures into their products for this crap. They include some sort of uninstaller buried on there for Windows, but I see no such thing for MacOS. �There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old�s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.� --John Rogers