• Andy Baio : Sony CD installs DRM rootkit?

  malware that hides itself and impossible for almost everyone to remove [via] 

• Justin Mason : Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

  Sony's appalling misuse of black-hat techniques to enforce their DRM by hook or by crook, without even an uninstall option

• Kayode Okeyode : Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

  Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

• Rod Begbie : Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

  Sony are now using Windows vulnerabilities to hide DRM software on Windows PCs so that users can't uninstall them. Fuckers.

• apathetic : Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

• malaclyps : Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

• n0wak : Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

  Geez.

(Tags: Consume! DRM Geekery Media Music Security Software business cluetrain customer-hostile daily drm ethics minilinks music privacy rootkits security software sony via:boingboing web windows)

• Eric Meyer : The Zen of Microformats

• Jim Ray : The Zen of Microformats [@lesscode.org]

• Justin Mason : The Zen of Microformats [@lesscode.org]

  'We all bear the scars of drawn-out battles over edge cases that satisfied someone’s sense of “completeness” or “aesthetics” or “perfection”, but ultimately made the common cases harder and solved no real problem.'

• Kayode Okeyode : The Zen of Microformats

  "Microformats" are a set of specifications describing interoperable machine formats that work on the web

• Simon Willison : The Zen of Microformats

  The process is more interesting than the formats themselves.

(Tags: 2read 80-20 code daily design-philosophy lesscode microformats resources software toread via:simonwillison web webdev)