11/23/2005: "More on Sony's DRM"

Two more notable articles in the whole Sony DRM saga.

First, a rather amusing discovery that the XCP software contains DVD Jon's code. The ironic part is that this same code was the cause of the author getting mauled through the Norweigan courts by the MPAA for circumventing other DRM software. There's also code in there from LAME and mpglib, both GPL'ed software, in addition to the VideoLAN code (to which Jon is a contributor) which is licensed under the LGPL.

The second is a rather sobering thought from Bruce Schneier and Wired asking the question why the virus and spyware companies have been virtually silent about this whole affair. Should not at least one of the two supposed to be protecting their subscribers from exactly this?

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11/23/2005: "More on Sony's DRM"