abg: Sysinternals dissects the lengths that the makers of CD emulation utilities like Alcohol and Daemon Tools have gone to to allow their customers to circumvent the DRM rootkits piled on by Sony and their ilk.

How do they do it? By installing their own rootkits. Brilliant!

I wonder how people would feel if every time they purchased an item from their favorite BigBox retailer, an employee followed them home and changed all of their locks?

That’s software 2006-style.

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