Beastie Boys CD installs virus

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited June 2004 in Science & Tech
A new Beastie Boys' CD called "To the Five Boroughs" (Capitol Records), is raising hackles around the Web for reputedly infecting computers with a virus.
On Windows, when a CD is loaded, a text file called autorun.inf is read, and any instructions within it are executed. In this case, the machine is instructed to install some manner of DRM driver that prevents copying. We haven't seen either the .inf file or any of the executables, so we can't say how or at what level it accomplishes this - or if indeed it actually does accomplish this.
Submitted by: profdlp - Thanks mate!

Source: TheRegister.co.uk

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    You've got to fight, for your right, to coooooooopy!
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited June 2004
    They should be sued for installing stuff on peoples' computers without their knowledge or consent.

    KingFish
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited June 2004
    F'em then, I'll never buy another CD again.
    Screw this guys.. I'm going home... LOL

    "g"
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited June 2004
    :rant: Now you can't even trust bought cds. :rant: And that's supposed to stop people from copying. :scratch: Ha i doubt it. Sue them bastards before more follow. :mean:
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Meh, it was the same deal on the Beatles 'Let It Be....Naked' and that was a year ago (or so), there was a very VERY small outcry then. It installs a player, don't remember which one, and anti-theft.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited June 2004
    Craps! I'm glad you told me that, keto - I was going to (once again... :rolleyes: ) complete my Beatles CD collection by adding that album soon. Looks like I'll be ripping it on my often-formatted comp...

    I'd have more respect for someone who robbed me face-to-face. I hate sneakiness. :rarr:
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    I got a copy of The Cooper Temple Clause's newest and it tries to do the same thing. Thank God for press advances that come to you without all that crap.
  • AnimalAnimal
    edited June 2004
    people who actually buy Beastie Boys' CD's deserve all they get!
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