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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

How not to protect your IP: A real life case study

So… we want people to stop trading music files … wait, wait, I have a great idea! Let’s install a rootkit on their computers and track what they do with it. What a brilliant idea right? What executive is dumb enough to sign off on this. What’s coming? My crystal ball suggests a 500,000 strong class action lawsuit may be on its way to Sony soon.