>The software in the screenshot actually has nothing to do with their rootkit and was not present on the CDs in question.
It was present on the CDs as its the way you very supposed to use the CDs.
>this wikipedia article you're using to try to validate your claims that it wasn't a rootkit
I was using just the image on there to show you that there was a whole software package that was included with the CD. It wasn't just DRM, but also a media player and a disc burner. Wikipedia is just copying media propagania of the subject. That's how the site works.
>It also says the software would install itself even when the EULA was refused, while you claim the opposite.
The article is confusing there because it's talking about a different DRM solution than XCP. The article is claiming a different DRM solution was doing that.
>My only question is why are you so vehemently defending Sony's actions?
I am not defending Sony. I am just not going to join in with made up outrage of malware when there was no malicious intent.
>Do you somehow believe that it is a company's right to fuck over your devices security in an attempt at selling more licenses to infinitely-reproducible content?
Insecure software with elevated priviledges is not something unique to this situation and it still is happening to this day. This is an industry wide problem. Thankfully in these times we have proper DRM that is built into silicon and the operating system so that companies don't reinvent something worse and buggy.
> It was present on the CDs as its the way you very supposed to use the CDs.
I'm getting the impression that you don't understand how CDs worked. You're acting like it was perfectly normal and expected for music CDs to include an installer for a CD player app. But it wasn't; essentially any computer that had a CD-ROM drive had the ability to play music CDs with no software installation needed, the same as any computer with a floppy drive had the ability to load files from disk. Yes, some CDs shipped with branded player software anyway; this was all useless advertising shovelware even when it didn't also contain harmful rootkits.
It was present on the CDs as its the way you very supposed to use the CDs.
>this wikipedia article you're using to try to validate your claims that it wasn't a rootkit
I was using just the image on there to show you that there was a whole software package that was included with the CD. It wasn't just DRM, but also a media player and a disc burner. Wikipedia is just copying media propagania of the subject. That's how the site works.
>It also says the software would install itself even when the EULA was refused, while you claim the opposite.
The article is confusing there because it's talking about a different DRM solution than XCP. The article is claiming a different DRM solution was doing that.
>My only question is why are you so vehemently defending Sony's actions?
I am not defending Sony. I am just not going to join in with made up outrage of malware when there was no malicious intent.
>Do you somehow believe that it is a company's right to fuck over your devices security in an attempt at selling more licenses to infinitely-reproducible content?
Insecure software with elevated priviledges is not something unique to this situation and it still is happening to this day. This is an industry wide problem. Thankfully in these times we have proper DRM that is built into silicon and the operating system so that companies don't reinvent something worse and buggy.