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Sony's DRM to get less dangerous, though just as restrictive

Sony's DRM to get less dangerous, though just as restrictive

Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
Molly Wood
Maybe you heard: Sony's copy-protected CDs install anticopying technology as a root kit that hides its activities. Yeah, freakout. Anyway, turns out that move could also open a backdoor to hackers, so Sony has at least agreed to it created without your knowledge. Oh, wow, thanks.