I really hope this backfires on them though. Sometimes I feel like switching to the dark side so I can teach people like this a lesson.
Sony keeps trying to come up with these silly anti copy processes, but they forget that a CD player (last time I checked) is NOT a computer, so nothing stops you from playing it in a CD player, and recording it on the computer and burning it. A bit more trouble, but shows it's still possible even if they did come up with a way to stop it completely.
Disabling autorun probably fixes this too.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174334,00.html
New digital rights management (search) technology shipping on music CDs by Sony Corp. of America/Bertelsmann AG artists employs stealthy, rootkit-style techniques to hide from users, according to a security expert.
The new technology, which Sony has dubbed "sterile burning," manipulates the Windows core processing center, or "kernel," to make the DRM almost totally undetectable on Windows systems.
These DRM files are almost impossible to remove without fouling Windows systems and could be used by malicious hackers to hide their own programs, according to Mark Russinovich (search), chief software architect at Winternals Software Inc., (search) a company that makes administrative software tools.
Sony BMG acknowledged that the rootkit-style features are part of DRM technology that began shipping with CDs in 2005, but referred technical questions about the technology to First 4 Internet Ltd., (search) the Banbury, England, firm that developed it.
Russinovich said he discovered the Sony rootkit technology after scanning his own computer with a tool called RootkitRevealer (search) that he developed.
Russinovich, who is an authority on rootkits, said he was shocked by the discovery.
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