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SonyBMG Using Virus Writer Technique to Improve CD Copy-Protection

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 1, 2005 - 4:45am.
San Francisco - Major record label SonyBMG has adopted a technique used by virus writers to hide their tracks, in an effort to ramp up its CD copy-protection technology, CNET News.com reported. The "rootkit," used by malware writers to cloak their code deep within an operating system -- making it more difficult for a user to delete -- is part of U.K.-based anti-piracy firm First4Internet's CD copy-protection technology, which
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