this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2024
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A Boring Dystopia
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Back in the mid 00's their CDs had a rootkit on them that installed software to interfere with CD Copying apparently also some of them phoned home with your listening habits. Stuff was hard if not impossible to remove, used system resources, crashed computers and was a security hole, just plain shity
IIRC, it became widely known that Sony was doing this after malware exploiting it became widespread enough to be noticed.
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Holy shit thats dystopian shit.