Re: That nice Sony company

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:47:40 GMT, in sci.electronics.design "Mike
Young" <boat042-spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"Ted Edwards" <Ted_Espamless@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:bH6af.74080$y_1.13609@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> martin griffith wrote:
>>> taken from rec.audio.pro.
>>>
>>> Nice bit of digital sleuthing
>>>
>>> http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
>>
>> Well worth reading. The best defence is to get rid of windoze and don't
>...
>> One of the replies to the article suggested that it was another reason to
>> use a Mac.
>
>Right! We don't hear about Mac diseases because they don't exist.
>
>It wouldn't surprise me if Sony's DRM was already embedded in OS10; no need
>for subsequent infection. No proof or substantive thought; just prejudice,
>based on 15 years of buyer's remorse. I've resented every Apple product I
>ever wasted a dime on.
I recently loaded Tiger OS X onto my "naked" PC. Most of it worked.
Strange seeing the Apple logo on my PC.

AFAIU OSX is just a butchered version of Linux(whatever), and there
are so many gurus out there, the DRM stuff will be cracked and
disabled very quickly


martin
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