Re: BEWARE - Sony CD installs Mac OS X kernel extensions!!

Peter Hayes wrote: 
Buzz <buzz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


Peter Hayes wrote:


Buzz <buzz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:



I wrote SunnComm about using the Imogen Heap CD with iTunes. Here is
their reply:


Your ticket xxxxxx has been Answered

Thank you for contacting us. We appreciate your purchase of the Imogen
Heap CD and will be happy to assist you with the music transfer.
Please follow the instructions below in order to move your content into
iTunes and onto an iPod:

If you have a Mac computer you can copy the songs using your iTunes
Player as you would normally do.

If you have a PC place the CD into your computer and allow the CD to
automatically start. If the CD does not automatically start, open your
Windows Explorer, locate the drive letter for your CD drive and double-click on the LaunchCD.exe file located on your CD.
Once the application has been launched and the End User License Agreement has been accepted, you can click the Copy Songs button on the
top menu.
Follow the instructions to copy the secure Windows Media Files (WMA) to
your PC. Make a note of where you are copying the songs to, you will
need to get to these secure Windows Media Files in the next steps.
Once the WMA files are on your PC you can open and listen to the songs
with Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher. You may also play them in any
compatible player that can play secure Windows Media files, such as
MusicMatch, RealPlayer, and Winamp, but it will require that you obtain
a license to do so. To obtain this license, from the Welcome Screen of
the user interface, click on the link below the album art that says "If
your music does not play in your preferred player, click here". Follow
the instructions to download the alternate license. PLEASE NOTE: This
license is only necessary for playing the copied songs in a media player
other than iTunes or Windows Media Player. If you are just trying to use
iTunes, simply continue with these instructions.
Using Windows Media Player only, you can then burn the songs to a CD.
Please note that in order to burn the files, you need to upgrade to or
already have Windows Media Player 9 or greater.
Once the CD has been burned, place the copied CD back into your computer
and open iTunes. iTunes can now rip the songs as you would a normal CD.
Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation

from Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing 

this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following
link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would
easily allow you to move content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto
your iPod rather than having to go through the additional steps above.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html
Please let us know if we can assist you further.
Thank you,
Rob
SunnComm Tech Support

CLIENT: user3@xxxxxxx
Will it play in Itunes?



ROTFL

Play it back in any CD player and feed the audio into your PC through
your sound card - much easier. And no nasty droppings left on your hard
drive.


I like the Macintosh way better. It just works. 


If you like these rootkits / kernel-extensions being installed on your
Mac. It's a massive and unnecessary risk just to play a CD when saner
alternatives exist, and at minimal cost.


The part that you must have missed is the part where nothing is installed on the Macintosh. No rootkits, no kernel-extensions, nothing.
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