Talk:Extended Copy Protection
Please make sure you are writing from the Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view. Comments such as "after their customer service representative grills you as to the reasons you are uninstalling it" and "defeating the purpose of having copy protection in the first place" are clearly a biased interpretation.
Also, if you are going to make broad claims such as "It has come under much criticism", "this software has been termed a root kit by technical experts", or "which they rarely do if the CD is opened", please provide more solid evidence for your claims. A single article by Mark Russinovich IMO is not sufficient evidence to claim the software is a "root kit" as determined by "technical experts", and the F-Secure report specifically states "the software isn't itself malicious".
Yes, you may think DRM is evil and Sony are the devil, but it's important for this article to remain neutral.
--203.45.114.193 14:40, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
The less than neutral parts of the article have now been edited, Not that I am the origional author nor an apologist for Sony.
However your other points regarding the characterision of this product have been left as there is quite a lot of evidence that it does use rootkit-like technology; and rather poorly at that given the security issues this software generates on users PC.
Mark Russinovich is widely respected expert in his field and many respect his analysis of this software. I have no reason to doubt this at the moment.
It may be that this software is relativly benign; and further analysis will show that in due course.
However any software which uses the rootkit-like evasion and hiding techniques must remain suspect; and with potentially dangerious security holes it cannot be taken at face value.
SimonZerafa 16:40, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Warden
Is there any reason to mention XCP's connection with World of Warcraft cheating? -- Myria 06:55, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Note that the Vivian Green album is not in the EFF list ...
However, see here.
Could someone who actually has this album check?