Ed Felten has been busy ably documenting the
Sony DRM rootkit and the even bigger debacle that is their
uninstaller. Now, it's true that DRM is inherently problematic to
write, but there's no reason why it had to be as clumsy and intrusive
as Sony's is. Now, this is obviously bad news if you've got this
stuff on your computer, but it's potentially good news for the world at large.
In general, the public has trouble getting worked up about DRM or
even the more aggressive anti-copying measures the content providers
want to use. But something this offensive has the potential to
get ordinary users annoyed, so this incident may turn out to be a net win.
Why Sony's DRM is good for you
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Isn't any situation where a security flaw is discovered and then fixed a net win?
Actually, that's a topic of pretty substantial debate in the security economics community. but I'm saying that in this case the *creation* of that flaw may have been a net win....
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