Many people have been concerned about the security risks of the XCP copy restriction software bundled on several recent Sony/BMG music CDs. Sony has made available a remarkably difficult-to-obtain uninstall program, which is not even capable of uninstalling all the components of the XCP system. However, Finnish security researcher...

Xerox has responded to our href="http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/">research on how printers made by Xerox and other companies track the origin of documents you print. Its new "Xerox Statement on Counterfeit Detection" contains some bizarre suggestions. The most prominent of these is that Xerox's invasions of privacy are OK because other...

EFF is collecting stories from EFF members and supporters who have purchased Sony-BMG CDs that contained the "rootkit" copy protection software. We've previously posted at least a partial list of CDs infected here We're considering whether the effect on the public, or on EFF members, is sufficiently serious...

One more magistrate judge has refused to allow the government's practice of secretly using cell phones to track people without probable cause--this time in the Southern District of New York (Manhattan). The magistrate judge declined to grant the government's request "without further briefing from the Government concerning the propriety of...

If you thought XCP "rootkit" copy-protection on Sony-BMG CDs was bad, perhaps you'd better read the 3,000 word (!) end-user license agreement (aka "EULA") that comes with all these CDs. First, a baseline. When you buy a regular CD, you own it. You do not "license" it...