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Sony Vs The People

Introduction

“Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit, without individual responsibility. “ Ambrose Bierce.

In this study, we will attempt to evaluate some of the approaches that Sony employ to protect its intellectual property. We will also review some of Sony’s history and try to judge whether their approaches / tactics are ethical / legal and then offer some suggestions.

DRM Scandal

Son identified that to protect its intellectual property it would ensure that certain purchasers of Sony’s CD’s did make any copies, Sony saw fit to include what is essentially spyware on it’s CD’s.
This malware that that is a form of DRM (Digital Rights Management) was XCP and MediaMax. It was first uncovered by Mark Russinovich, a software engineer for Microsoft of all people [1]. These rootkits are designed to not only hide on users systems, but always gather information on the user and send it home. It connects to......


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Approximate Pages: 17 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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