interesting drm issue on windows

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:55:01AM +0100, Javier said:
> http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
> 
> current drm implementations are horrible & very intrusive, but luckly
> for us it only works on windows :)

Another interesting tidbit that's recently come up is this:

You can use Sony's rootkit to hide applications from World of Warcraft's
anti-cheating protection.  All you have to do is add $sys$ to the
beginning of the name of the executable.


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