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Sony’s anti-piracy piracy. November 21, 2005

How’s this for irony? The music industry’s richest and biggest monster: Sony, used code- (and how’s this for double irony?- the code they used was from LAME, the world’s best MP3 encoder) without permission in XPC, the anti-piracy software that they installed (in the form of a root kit) on music buying public’s computers without their knowledge.

Full story here.

Here’s the very diplomatic response from the nice people at LAME.