EFF posts list of Sony rootkit Cd's- testing waters for lawsuit

The Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) is considering a lawsuit against Sony due to the rootkit fiasco
and is taking names of affected customers. They have gathered at least a partial
list of the Cd's that contain the malware so at least we can finally learn some
of the titles. 



  • Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)

  • Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)

  • Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)

  • Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)

  • Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)

  • Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)

  • Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)

  • The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
    Acceptance,
    Phantoms (Columbia)

  • Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)

  • Amerie, Touch (Columbia)

  • Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)

  • Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy)

  • Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)

  • Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)

  • The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)

  • The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)

  • Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)

  • Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)

  • Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia) (labeled as XCP, but, oddly,
    our disc had no protection)

Several other Sony-BMG CDs are protected with a different
copy-protection technology, sourced from SunnComm, including:



  • My Morning Jacket, Z

  • Santana, All That I Am

  • Sarah McLachlan, Bloom Remix Album

This is not a complete list. So how do you recognize other XCP-laden
CDs in the wild?


Tip-off #1: on the front of the CD, at the left-most edge, in the
transparent "spine", you'll see "CONTENT PROTECTED" along with the IFPI
copy-protection logo. A few photos make
this clearer.

You can visit the
EFF for more information
and also to read up on what else this organization
is up to. We ought to think about kicking these guys some support, they always
seem to be in the forefront when it comes to protecting peoples rights and
fighting the big dogs.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation

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