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Sony 2005: Anti-Piracy Schemes Gone Wild!

The Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal of 2005

The scandal
Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal
List of Compact Discs sold with Extended Copy Protection
The person who outed Sony
Mark Russinovich
Winternals

CD technology

Compact Disc
MP3 CD
Related technology
LAME
GNU Lesser General Public License
VLC media player
Jon Lech Johansen
Sam Hocevar
GNU General Public License
Harmful/dangerous software
Rootkit
Malware

Music piracy

Copyright infringement
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
Peer-to-peer file sharing
Chan Nai-ming
Radio music ripping
Fair use
Anti-piracy
Trade group efforts against file sharing
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Copy protection schemes

Copy protection
Compact Disc and DVD copy protection
Digital rights management
Extended Copy Protection
SecuROM
OtherOS

Consumerism

Consumer
Informed consumer