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Intrepid explorer of Windows internals Mark Russinovich has shown in a brilliant blog post that the DRM on copy-protected Sony Music CDs installs a poorly-written, insecure rootkit when inserted into a Windows computer in an attempt to keep the user from ripping the CD.

Oh, and the software is impossible to uninstall without special tools.

I will leave it to others to determine whether the use of a resource-hogging, difficult-to-remove rootkit like this one is illegal or merely distasteful.