[BC] Sony DRM/ CD's to Watch

[Cowboy]

On Monday 14 November 2005 08:34 pm, Tom Taggart wrote:
>Got this listfrom a local list, don't know if it has been posted here  
>(been out of town since Saturday).  May be something to pass on to the  
>production people along with a supply of green magic markers & a nail file!
>The same list notes that Mac's are not immune from Sony's software  
>deviltry, the copy protection software installs two kernel extensions on  
>Mac OSX machines. It does not automatically install like it does on  
>Windows machines.
>
>I have been referred to an article at the following link:
>
>http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/10/drm_crippled_cd.html

 Two things.
 One, I found no comments that Mac's are not immune, but did find a comment
 that they are.

 Two, I find it very hard to believe that the Mac, a system based on BSD-UNIX,
 could have anything like a "kernel extension".
 That's more a Windows thing, although I guess you *could* call a linux module
 by that name, though it's nearly impossible to compile a module that will load
 on anything other than the box the kernel was originally compiled on, and even
 then it will not work if the box has compiled any other kernel in the meantime.

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