Sony: Why care about rootkits?
Published: 09 Nov 2005 18:10 GMT
A senior SonyBMG executive has hit back at the criticism surrounding the company's use of a digital rights management (DRM) technology on a music CD.
Thomas Hesse, the president of SonyBMG's global digital business division, said in a radio interview last week that its use of rootkits is not an issue to the everyday user."Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" he said in the interview with radio company NPR.
The copy-restriction software is hidden so that music pirates cannot find and remove it, according to Hesse. "This is purely about restricting the ability to burn MP3 files in an unprotected manner," he said.
Although Sony does not appear to understand why people are concerned about the use of rootkits, the EMI Group has tried to distance itself from the controversy by stating that it does not use rootkits on its own products.
"EMI is not using any software that hides traces of the program. There is no 'rootkit' behaviour and there are no processes left running in the background," an EMI spokesman said last week
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sounds like an arrogant little man who still has a... Anonymous -
When will these exec's ever learn?
is it not... Anonymous -
The only way to make this joker understand, is to... Anonymous
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With that response Sony have just lost the right t... Jamie Dowling
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What an ignorant, arrogant fool. Most people don't... Ian Jackson
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most people dont know what a trojan is, should the... Dave
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Well I've hit back already. We have just purchas... Andy
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Most people didn't know what viruses were when th... Adrian Russell
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Ironic really. Sony sell you CD/DVD R/RW Driv... Mech
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> Ironic really. Sony sell you CD/DVD R... pgn -
So, ignorance is bliss - an unconventional corpora... Nick Stevens
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Vicarious/Secondary liability for intrusions based... Anonymous
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This is one of the most ignorant/arrogant response... Dave Doe
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Simple just don't buy SONY products anymore. If th... Anonymous
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Sony might wake up if consumers do three things:
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Since Sony doesn't mind rootkits how about we put... Stan Plymale
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Thomas Hesse doesn't know what customer trust in a... Anonymous
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And people laughed when I insisted that Sony is th... Tiber Septim
