Sony halts anti-piracy software
Saturday, November 12. 2005
By Carrie Kirby
Sony BMG said it has temporarily stopped manufacturing music CDs containing a controversial copy-protection program after several Internet viruses took advantage of the software to attack computers.
"We are aware that a computer virus is circulating that may affect computers with XCP content protection software," the company said in a statement Friday, referring to the secret program Sony included in some of its music CDs that would download itself onto hard drives unbeknownst to many customers.
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