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Posted by Jeff Rife on 11/06/05 05:29
Stan Brown (the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> Sat, 05 Nov 2005 13:58:06 -0500 from Rich <none@none.com>:
> > Gilliat-Smith and Sony BMG spokesman John McKay said the technology
> > had been on the market for about eight months and there had been no
> > major complaints prior to Russinovich's blog post.
>
> Translation: Nobody complained about these hidden files till they
> discovered them.
That's only partially true.
There were many reports of random crashes of Windows machines that got
analyzed by other people and pointed to these driver files. The problem
is that until somebody put two and two together, nobody knew the files
came from Sony CDs and that they weren't intentional malware.
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