New Beasties CD autoinstalls corporate malware?

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I sure hope this Bugtraq post is incorrect.

Comments

Weird

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

the Shift key is your friend...

Re: Weird

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how that would even happen on Mac OS X.

[the-idiot-heart.livejournal.com]

vinyl is your best friend.

[brianenigma.livejournal.com]

...all the more reason to simply purchase from iTunes.

Personal anecdotal evidence shows that OS X does have some sort of autorun-on-mount, even with all of the automatic junk disabled in Safari and Unstuffit. I have seen *.dmg files that launch either a license agreement or an installer application, but never bothered to research the exact mechanism by which they do this.

[stimps.livejournal.com]

That sounds fine, but they still don't do music to Canada.

[jenlight.livejournal.com]

I gotta find out if this is true.

[jenlight.livejournal.com]

http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=20128&highlight=copy+protected

[bruisedhips.livejournal.com]

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[rpkrajewski.livejournal.com]

After reading both the Bugtraq and Beastie boards, I'm not convinced of any of the assertions I found there.

[mystyphy.livejournal.com]

I know BMG was doing this with SunnComm software, but that at least prompts you before installing. Still very annoying.

I guess Capitol and Beastie Boys feel they have a "License to Ill" your computer.

Don't hate the hamster, hate the wheel

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

http://boingboing.net/2004/06/11/new_beasties_disc_ha.html

"Hi, I'm not sure who posted re: Beastie Boys copy protection, but I just spoke with Mike D and their management and they wanted me to pass along that a) This is all territories except the US and UK -- US and UK discs do not have this protection on them; b) All EMI CDs are treated this way, theirs isn't receiving special treatment; c) They would have preferred not to have the copy protection, but weren't allowed to differ from EMI policy."

Re: Don't hate the hamster, hate the wheel

[torgo-x.livejournal.com]

I also hear the album itself is blaaaaaaah.