Extended Copy Protection or XCP - The Orange Mane

clean · 11-05-2005, 09:16 AM

Sony BMG, the record company part of the multinational corporation that makes laptops, TVs, movies and many other things, is in trouble this week thanks to a copy protection scheme it has used on a number of its CDs.

The software, called Extended Copy Protection or XCP, hides itself on your hard drive using techniques normally reserved for viruses, worms and trojans, which use similar "rootkits" to evade detection.

And if you notice it is there and try to remove it you may stop your computer recognising its CD drive.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4406178.stm

alkemical · 11-08-2005, 01:27 PM

I didn't notice this the first time 'round, but my thread on the rootkits addresses this as well as well as tips to try to hack it out

11-05-2005, 09:16 AM	#1
clean Dazed And Frantic Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 820	Extended Copy Protection or XCP Sony BMG, the record company part of the multinational corporation that makes laptops, TVs, movies and many other things, is in trouble this week thanks to a copy protection scheme it has used on a number of its CDs. The software, called Extended Copy Protection or XCP, hides itself on your hard drive using techniques normally reserved for viruses, worms and trojans, which use similar "rootkits" to evade detection. And if you notice it is there and try to remove it you may stop your computer recognising its CD drive. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4406178.stm

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11-08-2005, 01:27 PM	#2
alkemical Guerrilla Ontologist rorrim\|mirror Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Future Posts: 42,695 Adopt-a-Bronco: Prima Materia	I didn't notice this the first time 'round, but my thread on the rootkits addresses this as well as well as tips to try to hack it out