[35403] in bugtraq
Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Thigpen)
Mon Jun 21 06:44:00 2004
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:16:23 -0400
From: Ron Thigpen <rthigpen@nc.rr.com>
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Chris Merkel wrote:
> FWIW, the Mike D said that he would have preferred that there were no DRM on
> the album, but that it's a standard practice for all EMI releases. Check out
> this post from BoingBoing:
>
> http://www.boingboing.net/2004/06/11/new_beasties_disc_ha.html
An unsubstantiated comment indicates that the DRM is _not_ present in
the US and UK versions of this release.
Does anyone know if the DRM malware used in this case is of the
driver-installer type that can be defeated by holding down the Shift key
when loading a CD into the drive?
I don't know if this applies in this particular case, but I have heard
reports that Philips will not allow DRM-choked releases that don't
comply with the CD standard to display the 'Compact Disc Digital Audio'
logo. This is no guarantee, but a disc with the logo should be less
likely to be hobbled in this way than one without.
A good means to express consumer power is to ask your retailer about
their returns policy in these cases, and to make a return if you
encounter one of these discs.
--rt
