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submitted 10 months ago by squirrel to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

Article by the Verge: It reports on technical difficulties encountered by movie theatre chain Alamo Drafthouse which prevented them from showing digital projections, due to software problems with Sony projectors.

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[-] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

Sorry but the booby-trapped their CDs? Could you explain further? I was not able to find out what you meant with a quick google search.

[-] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 27 points 10 months ago

Back in the mid 00's their CDs had a rootkit on them that installed software to interfere with CD Copying apparently also some of them phoned home with your listening habits. Stuff was hard if not impossible to remove, used system resources, crashed computers and was a security hole, just plain shity

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

IIRC, it became widely known that Sony was doing this after malware exploiting it became widespread enough to be noticed.

[-] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thx a lot!

Holy shit thats dystopian shit.

[-] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

They are talking about the Sony BMG rootkit.

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