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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 5 months ago

Context for those who didn’t live through it: Sony intentionally compromised the PCs of its customers to install a mechanism by which to prevent music piracy. There’s a lot more to it but you can read about here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal