Sony stole code from Lame in their rootkit

Posted by bstadil on Nov 13, 2005 12:13 AM EDT
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Sony themselves felt they were exempt from copyright law when they decided to harass their customers with the now infamous rootkit.

It turns out that the rootkit contains pieces of code that are identical to LAME, an open source mp3-encoder, and thereby breach the license. Who is counting as long as Celine Dion's stuff is protected.

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Lame, lame, lame! AnonymousCoward 6 1,455 Nov 14, 2005 4:08 AM
You know this is just the tip of the stolen GPL. etc iceberg tuxchick 0 1,031 Nov 13, 2005 11:13 AM

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