{"id":1057,"date":"2005-12-01T09:25:37","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T14:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/12\/01\/bad-sony-bad\/"},"modified":"2005-12-01T09:25:37","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T14:25:37","slug":"bad-sony-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/bad-sony-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Sony, Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysinternals.com\/blog\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Naughty, naughty Sony\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2005\/12\/noxmas.gif?resize=185%2C68\" width=\"185\" height=\"68\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/a>Ok, so this is kind of a stretch, but since Mark Russinovich lives in Austin and was the one to sound the alarm about the rootkit that Sony&#8217;s installing on your computer under the guise of protecting their copyrights if you play one of their CDs , I thought I&#8217;d post it here. Clicking the image will take you to Mark&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard about this, BoingBoing has a pretty good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/11\/21\/sony_rootkit_drm_rou.html\">roundup about it<\/a>. Since Sony&#8217;s been so very naughty this year, it makes sense not to buy any of their crap as gifts. The EFF has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/IP\/DRM\/Sony-BMG\/guide.php\">nice guide<\/a> to help let you know which CDs are affected in case you already have one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so this is kind of a stretch, but since Mark Russinovich lives in Austin and was the one to sound the alarm about the rootkit that Sony&#8217;s installing on your computer under the guise of protecting their copyrights if you play one of their CDs , I thought I&#8217;d post it here. Clicking the <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/bad-sony-bad\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-h3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}