@stereogum: In which the company was caught secretly installing unremovable software to hide digital rights management technology on CD buyers’ PCs. 💿 The XCP program was a huge security risk that led to class action lawsuits and, 20 years ago today, a recall of dozens of album titles. The rootkit was first noted by researcher Mark Russinovich after he purchased Van Zant’s ‘Get Right With The Man’; a few weeks later Sony BMG released software to uninstall it, which Russinovich said made the problem worse.

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