New Beasties CD autoinstalls software

[Commander Chode]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/366191/2004-06-13/2004-06-19/0

This is a all new low for the music industry. Neither the Beasties or Capitol will ever get another of my hard earned dollars.

 

[Hardatwork]

Sneaky...

Thanks for the heads up CC!

 

[crustyclown]

hmm a bunch of the "copy controlled" cd's I have do that. Heard you can bypass by holding left shift while inserting. No clue about Macs.

 

[Havoc]

i was thinking of buying there CD.....but now i'm definitly not going too...

 

[Commander Chode]

It appears that all EMI CDs have this sort of protection.

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/06/11/new_beasties_disc_ha.html

Still doesn't make it right.