[AbeKrieger]

Does it really matter? If the CD can be played digitally it can be recorded perfectly using digital media. Unless they render the discs unplayable (ha ha) there will never be a way to keep people from making digital copies of the music.

Not to mention hackers and bootleggers have infinite resource and ingenuity.

[ShadowAce]

That wasn't the point of this. The point is that Sony is installing software onyour computer that sits between your hardware (CD drive) and the OS, thus hijacking the way your computer works.

Once you remove this software, you will break your computer.

[ChadGore]

Re:Does it really matter?

Once the root kit is there, any file name that begins with $sys$ will not be visible to the windows API.

So, you play a Sony CD, then rename notebook.exe to $sys$notebook.exe that file will disappear.

The end result of this, if sony continues to illegally install root kits with every CD autoplayed in a PC, will be hundreds of thousands of rootedPCs connected to the Internet, ready for exploitation.

Got a fire wall ?
Got anti-virus ?

None of it will matter because every time someone takes a Sony CD and puts it into the CD drive, it's set up to autoplay, which installs a new root kit with every play of the CD.

That's why it matters. Sony should be brought to court for their actions right now.