What it means in laymen's terms is this: Sony does not trust their paying customers. They think their customers are thieves. SO this put this little program on their CDs that installs onto the hard drive of your computer when you insert the CD that allows Sony to track data about you and limit how you can use the CD you paid for. If you try to manually remove this software from your computer, it will likely crash your computer.
So if you are a paying customer of Sony, you are being played for a sucker. You would have been better off downloading your Sony music over LimeWire or going to this Russian site to download any album you want for about a dollar. And yes, that Russian site is 100% legal.
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