More on Sony-BMG and their sneaky DRM Ploy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a list of CD's from Sony that carry the self-installing rootkit that has created problems for those who purchase and rip music from Sony and many of their label subsidiaries.

From EFF's list:

Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)
Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)
Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)
Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)
Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)
Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)
Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)
The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)
Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)
Amerie, Touch (Columbia)
Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)
Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy)
Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)
Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)
The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)
The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)
Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)
Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)

Another disturbing development in this mess is the discovery of a version of Breplibot Trojan that uses the cloaking properties of the Sony Rootkit to evade detection in the users system.

BSWC Audio File from 11.05.05 Available

Here is the audio file from Saturday's program. Thanks, as always, to the Internet Archive for providing a home for so much cool stuff, including Black Sweater, White Cat.

BSWC Artist Playlist for 11.05.05

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Spent some quality time with Musique-libre.org the last few nights. The first half hour tonight will have a definite francophone tilt.

1. Berceuse de Julie by Ehma
2. Assise sur un banc by Ehma
3. l'ame soeur by Audrey
4. Capotes à un Franc by El Manu
5. en bord de nationale by sam
6. le petit pas panal by sam
7. Sarkozy by CaClo
8. Le temps by El Manu
9. Cool Fresh Apple Cider by The Bran Flakes
10. Just My Luck (fourstones mix) by fourstones.net
11. thieves by fourstones.net
12. Shaken Not Stirred by Br Cleve & His Lush Orchestra
13. You & me baby in my motocarro by Alcachofo
14. Accidental Beatnik by Coconut Monkeyrocket
15. riptide.mix by Lushy
16. lifelong fiction by aphilas
17. Falling by Twizzle
18. The Shnay Speaks by Cagey House
19. Yellow_Chaos by Realaze
20. Bessere Welt by Zirkulardynamik
21. Arcade - keep on by stereoskill
22. Moonlight Zombie Dance by Bruce Lenkei
23. African melo by zestoff
24. the spank (Florian Filsinger - Salamandroids mix) by geistfrei
25. Fear by Mr. Zack
26. Upon Rock City by Books On Tape
27. Ballad Of A Drunkard by Talking Cure

Sony BMG is Caught Red-Handed...Bad Sony, Bad Sony

Taking Digital Rights Management to even more dark and evil extremes, Sony BMG has been caught distributing CD's that slip a form of spyware into the user's operating system. Boing, Boing has blogged about it and has a link to the (very) technical explanation. This is a nasty development.

From Boing, Boing:

"A technical dissection by the mighty Mark Russinovich of Sony's rootkit-based DRM. Sony uses genuine black-hat techniques to install a rootkit, even choosing a Windows-sounding name for a service just like your favourite backdoor, and about as easy to detect or remove. Basically, Sony puts the sort of malware on its customers' PCs that the rest of the world spends alot of money fighting."

Helen Ostrowski

No relation to Cezary Ostrowski.

BSWC Audio File from 10.29.05 Available

Here is the audio file from Saturday's program. Thanks, as always, to the Internet Archive for providing a home for so much cool stuff, including Black Sweater, White Cat.

BSWC Artist Playlist for 10.29.05

1. Namorinho de portão (com Gilberto Gil) by Gal Costa
2. Track 08 by Calypso
3. O Sapo do Rio Vermelho by Stonkas y Congas
4. Bagamoyo (Radio edit)mp3 by Casiokids
5. Bongo Avenger by Eric & Ryan Kilkenny
6. Cha l'ectro Cha Cha by Martinibomb and Coconut MonkeyRocket
7. All Eyes Nation by Heliosphere
8. Elevator Operator by Lolly Pop and TELEPHONE!
9. Polivox box + Garage by Messer Chups
10. Wah Factor 3 by Marble
11. feefestudio by Space Mariachi
12. The Natives Are Restless by Don Tiki
13. Halloween Hassle by Dublxero
14. Turntables and Lots O Monsters by The Fifthhorseman
15. Devil Mix by DJ John
16. The Raven by Fettdog
17. self_revolution by KAFFEINIK
18. borderline-DU-remix by bradsucks
19. Making Me Nervous (Cezary Ostrowski mix) by Brad Sucks
20. I swim (radio edit) by Cezary Ostrowski
21. Age_Of_Curiousity by Ashwan
22. One Question (featuring P.Mac) by GaryM

BSWC 10.22.05: Audio File Now Available

Here is the audio file from Saturday's program. Thanks, as always, to the Internet Archive for providing a home for so much cool stuff, including Black Sweater, White Cat.

BSWC Artist Playlist for 10.22.05

1. Song Of the Sahara by Beth Quist
2. Sweet Dissonance by Anup
3. Untrue by All the living and the dead
4. Sync or swim by Artemis
5. Deja Correr by Mutandina
6. hello, it's time for music by fortyone
7. A tribute to 365 days by Jan Turkenburg
8. i want the princess! by fortyone
9. Spread The Music by Lee Rosevere
10. Through the Swamp by Bruce Lenkei
11. superego exchange by Bm RELOCATION PROGRAM
12. Moonlight Zombie Dance by Bruce Lenkei
13. three o'clock mother by Bruce Lenkei
14. The Exorcism by Sounds of Terror!
15. Intro - Orgies, A Tool Of Witchcraft by Louise Heubner
16. Jam At The Mortuary by Griz Green
17. Monsters Crash the Pajama Party from a Movie Trailer
18. Munster Beat! by Martinibomb & The Coconut Monkeyrocket
19. Dizzy ke Peeche by Martinibomb
20. Black Elk Mountain by Twizzle
21. Devil exit from fashion by Messer Chups
22. The Space Bandidos by Gorowksi
23. You're the Murdera by J. Boogie's Dubtronic Science
24. My Africa - teru remix by P. Mac, teru
25. Danger Rock Science by Menthol
26. Theme from Chalets by The Chalets
27. Dom staller fan inte annat an till och krav by Hemstad
28. Indigena (hijo de la selva) by Guarapita

BSWC 10.08.05: Audio File Now Available

Here it is. Thanks again to the Internet Archives for providing their services. Incredible organization!