Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil

["KF (lists)" <kf_lists () secnetops com>]

That could be why it sounds like crap when my X-Box trys to play it... 
the audio cuts in an out REAL bad...

I assume you would want to take a peak at beastie.exe if you really 
wanted to figure out what they are doing.
-KF


Dragos Ruiu wrote:

> Well I truly regret actually purchasing a copy of the new Beastie Boys album
> to support them.
>
> It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system,
> that automatically, silently, installs "helpful" copy protection software on 
> MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems.
> I'm not sure exactly what it does yet, but I am sure regreting actually
> purchasing said media now... they don't deserve my money if they choose
> to pull stupid stunts like this. Installing software without your permission
> sounds like viral malware behaviour to me. I certainly hope the AV companies
> put signatures into their products for this crap.
>
> They include some sort of uninstaller buried on there for Windows, but 
> I see no such thing for MacOS. If anyone has disassembled the
> aforementioned malware already and can save us some time with 
> instructions on how to remove it... thanks in advance.
>
> caveat emptor,
> --dr
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