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.
Here’s the very diplomatic response from the nice people at LAME.
[...] Sony were caught ripping off other people’s software without permission a few years ago, now they’ve been caught using software illegally. Sony BMG is no stranger to [...]