Sony's DRM Takes It Too Far

The WinTernos blog was extremely popular in the tech community and Rosinovich's angry post was quickly picked up by SlashDot, a popular hub for news for nerds. The XCP rootkit is now present in no less than half a million different networks, including many military and government networks. Computer users were absolutely enraged. People who pay for their music get viruses while people who download it at no cost from illegal sources get clean mp3s that can freely copy and use on whatever devices they own.