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Submitted by retronegative on March 24, 2008
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Introduction
“Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit, without individual responsibility. “ Ambrose Bierce.
In this study, we will attempt to evaluate some of the approaches that Sony employ to protect its intellectual property. We will also review some of Sony’s history and try to judge whether their approaches / tactics are ethical / legal and then offer some suggestions.
DRM Scandal
Son identified that to protect its intellectual property it would ensure that certain purchasers of Sony’s CD’s did make any copies, Sony saw fit to include what is essentially spyware on it’s CD’s.
This malware that that is a form of DRM (Digital Rights Management) was XCP and MediaMax. It was first uncovered by Mark Russinovich, a software engineer for Microsoft of all people [1]. These rootkits are designed to not only hide on users systems, but always gather information on the user and send it home. It connects to ‘connected.sonymusic.com’ and sends the users IP, date, album and other information back to Sony [2].
This is installed on the user’s computer without their consent which is illegal under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and anti-spyware laws [3] [4]. This software is also not mentioned in the EULA. Especially in the case of MediaMax, this piece of software is installed before the EULA is even displayed and remained installed even if the user declines the agreement [5]. This raises troubling ethical and legal issues. Users don’t normally associate installing software while placing a music CD into their computers.
Also, the code used had serious flaws in it and created several security holes in the user’s computer. This flaw has already been targeted by two Trojan viruses [6] [7].
When the news hit the public Sony agreed to recall the infected CD’s and issue uninstallers for XCP. These uninstallers (XCP) were at...
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