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For anybody who thinks that fair-use rights activists like the EFF are being too paranoid about DRM and “Trusted” Computing (AKA Treacherous Computing), read this. Sony's “copy protected” CDs install a CD driver, IDE driver, and a rootkit to cover their tracks. This rootkit can be found by some spyware detection programs, but if a user deletes it their system will become unbootable! It took an expert like Mark, who's the coauthor of Windows Internals, quite a while to get to the bottom of this. Now imagine this was happening on a “Trusted” platform where even power-users like Mark would be powerless to undo the damage, and maybe you can see just how bad the situation can get. Media corporations have shown time and time again that they are not just disrespectful of customer rights but downright contemptuous of them. Any scheme like Treacherous Computing that involves trusting them to do the right thing is practically a guarantee of abuse.
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