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"Toolkit" MPAA Offers Schools to Monitor File-Sharing Traffic More Like a Rootkit

The MPAA is such a kind and giving organization. After compiling a list of the top 25 schools for piracy, it sent them a letter last month offering the free, super-helpful University Toolkit to track naughty file-sharing on their networks. It "can produce a report that is strictly internal and therefore confidential to illustrate the level of file sharing on [your school's] network. In addition, we will send a hard copy in the near future to your university's Chief Information Officer." Of course, the first thing it does is call home. That's before the security holes. More »

7:15 PM on Mon Nov 26 2007
By Matt Buchanan
3,668 views, 13 comments

Latest by axiomatic: Let them implement this. I see serious courtroom hilarity coming from this software. DIAF RIAA more »

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Sony To Pay You $150 For CD Rootkit Scandal

Remember that Sony Rootkit DRM Scandal a little while back? The one that boned your computer with a rootkit when you put in a CD with Sony's DRM on it? Well, Sony's just agreed to pay out $150 to customers to "repair damage done" when they tried to remove the rootkit. More »

7:30 PM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By Jason Chen
291 views, 13 comments

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Sony Settles Rootkit Blunders

Remember all of the Sony music rootkit nonsense from last year? Well, Sony BMG has settled. Hooray! The final approval was granted by judge Naomi Reice Buchwald. Consumers will be able to exchange their rootkit'd CD's with replacements minus the bad software and will receive other compensation depending on the version of the rootkit on original CD. More »

11:22 AM on Tue May 23 2006
By Travis Hudson
85 views, 4 comments

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Mr. & Mrs. Rootkit

It seems that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are spreading the rootkit love with the German DVD release of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. This DVD uses a copy protection mechanism that is being described as using "rootkit-like cloaking technology." The DVD uses Settec Alpha-DISC copy protection that manages to hide its processes, but it does not hide any files. So it isn t as bad as Sony's recent rootkit blunders, at least in practice. More »

5:35 AM on Thu Feb 16 2006
By Travis Hudson
275 views, 6 comments