Sony DRM Warning

Hopefully many of you have already heard about the Sony CD DRM (Digital Rights Management) Rootkit 'scandal/fiasco', but I figured I would give you a heads up anyway:
Basically (long explanation here), on some CD's (Current list) if you try and play it in a PC it will not let you play/access the music unless you agree to a license agreement. This will install a sony player that will then allow you to play/rip (but no more than 3 times) the CD. However, what they don't tell you is that it's also installing a rootkit, a program that hides other programs, as part of this DRM scheme. Such rootkits were almost universially the domain of ad/spyware before Sony got this bright idea. Now really malicious stuff can install itself and become downright impossible to uninstall (to top it off, Sony's official uninstall requires you to input personal info). The "upside" for some people is that this has the hilarious side-effect of allowing gamers to run cheat/hack programs in MMORPGs like Sony's own Everquest and Blizzard's World of Warcraft and the hacks can use the rootkit to make their hacks literally undectable by anti-cheating software.

The long and short of it; avoid buying the following CD's, write an angry letter to Sony (and maybe even Senator/rep too) instead (maybe download the songs too):
Nothing Is Sound. Switchfoot
Unwritten [ENHANCED] Natasha Bedingfield
Ride Shelly Fairchild
12 Songs Neil Diamond
Touch Amerie
Bloom Remix Album [ENHANCED] Sarah McLachlan
Kasabian Kasabian
The Essential Pete Seeger [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Pete Seeger
Jeru [ENHANCED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Gerry Mulligan
Times Like These Buddy Jewell,
Bob Brookmeyer & Friends[ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Bob Brookmeyer
Healthy In Paranoid Times [ENHANCED] Our Lady Peace
Cautivo [DUALDISC] Chayanne
The Invisible Invasion Coral, The Coral
Defined Amici Forever
Suspicious Activity [ENHANCED] The Bad Plus
Manhattan Symphonie [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Dexter Gordon
Phantoms Acceptance
On Ne Change Pas Celine Dion
Get Right with the Man Van Zant
To Love Again [ENHANCED] Chris Botti
Life [DUALDISC] Ricky Martin
The Essential Dion [ENHANCED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Dion
Faso Latido A Static Lullaby
Change It All Goapele
Susie Suh Susie Suh
My Very Special Guests [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] George Jones
Broken Valley Life of Agony
Silver's Blue [ENHANCED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Horace Silver
Z [ENHANCED] My Morning Jacket
The 60s The Dead 60s
Life In Slow Motion David Gray
Elizabethtown [SOUNDTRACK] Various Artists
Golden Elkland
Aha Shake Heartbreak Kings of Leon
Unfabulous And More: Emma Roberts [ENHANCED] Emma Roberts
Vivian Vivian Green
Dreamin' My Dreams [ENHANCED] Patty Loveless
Mary Mary [ENHANCED] Mary Mary
Never Gone Backstreet Boys
Aha Shake Heartbreak Kings of Leon
Friendship [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Ray Charles
Juego De Amor [Copy Protected CD] ~ Antony Santos
On Your Shore Charlotte Martin
Brown Sugar Various Artists
Blue Skies Diana DeGarmo
I'm a Hustla [EXPLICIT LYRICS] Cassidy
In Your Honor Foo Fighters
Hero Kirk Franklin
All That I Am Santana
(Copied from Current list on 11/9/05)

NOTE: None of this is applicable if you're running anything other than Windows; Sony was lazy so you can play and rip these CD's to your heart's content if you're running MacOS, Linux etc