Sony DRM woes continue

ALTHOUGH SONY killed off its controversial CD DRM root kit system, investigators have discovered that it could have caused more problems than anyone first thought.

A glitch in the XCP DRM technology meant that anti-spyware features in AOL's Safety and Security Centre software and PestPatrol software could have tried to disable the CD-ROM's configuration.

The bug has been found by Texas attorney general's office who have been testing the XCP copy-protection technology as part of the state's lawsuit against Sony.

Attorney General Greg Abbott's mouthpiece said that it was possible that there are many consumers out there who might have had this happen to them.

However they would not have made the connection between running certain versions of AOL or the stand-alone software and having ever entered CDs with XCP files into that same PC.

CA and AOL have made a software patch available that fixes it. More here. µ