Otro de esos tests virales, siguiendo la cadena de Chema.

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Excuse us, could you just put down that hammer for a minute and listen. You’re so busy getting things done you rarely take any time out just to relax. In fact, you’ve probably forgotten how to relax. That’s because you’re so anxious to prove that it’s possible to lead a good and moral life without religion that you have built a strict and forbidding creed all of your own.

You keep a compost heap, cycle to the bottle bank, invest in ethical schemes only and the list of countries you won’t buy from is longer than the washing line for your baby’s towelling nappies. You admire uncompromising self–sacrificers like Aung San Suu Kyi and Che Guevara, and would have liked the chance to be incarcerated for your principles like Diderot or Nelson Mandela.

You would never cheat on your partner, drink and drive, accept bribes or touch drugs. You never waste money though you give lots to charity. Living a good life? You’re a model to us all. But it wouldn’t hurt you to try a little happiness once in a while. Loosen up.

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Chema comenta en su blog sobre el DRM de Sony que instalaba un rootkit en las máquinas windows para enviar información de copias y hasta se han publicado unos mapas de la infección (Asia | Europa | EEUU) analizando qué servidores dns conocen el dominio que usa el rootkit (lo cual implica una máquina en la red infectada).

Pero es que aún hay más:

• Hace más cosas aparte de sonar como CD de música
• Han aparecido virus y troyanos derivados del DRM
• Su EULA es casi peor (EEF), y dice cosas como:
  1. If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home. That’s because the EULA says that your rights to any copies terminate as soon as you no longer possess the original CD.
  2. You can’t keep your music on any computers at work. The EULA only gives you the right to put copies on a “personal home computer system owned by you.”
  3. If you move out of the country, you have to delete all your music. The EULA specifically forbids “export” outside the country where you reside.
  4. You must install any and all updates, or else lose the music on your computer. The EULA immediately terminates if you fail to install any update. No more holding out on those hobble-ware downgrades masquerading as updates.
  5. Sony-BMG can install and use backdoors in the copy protection software or media player to “enforce their rights” against you, at any time, without notice. And Sony-BMG disclaims any liability if this “self help” crashes your computer, exposes you to security risks, or any other harm.
  6. The EULA says Sony-BMG will never be liable to you for more than $5.00. That’s right, no matter what happens, you can’t even get back what you paid for the CD.
  7. If you file for bankruptcy, you have to delete all the music on your computer. Seriously.
  8. You have no right to transfer the music on your computer, even along with the original CD.
  9. Forget about using the music as a soundtrack for your latest family photo slideshow, or mash-ups, or sampling. The EULA forbids changing, altering, or make derivative works from the music on your computer.
• Parece que puede contener código LGPL, y no publica las fuentes, por lo que el rootkit viola la GPL.
• Le ha supuesto a Sony varias demandas

Afortunadamente parece que da marcha atrás, y ya está proporcionando herramientas para desinstalar el rootkit (con muchos bugs, pero bueno), lo ha dejado de incluir en nuevos CDs y parece que hasta retirará del mercado los que lleven el mencionado mecanismo anticopia.