I swear, I didn’t intend to turn this into an anti-Sony digital rights management blog. Seriously. This will (hopefully) be the last thing I post about it.

As predicted, bonafide viruses have appeared that take advantage of First 4 Internet’s cloaking technology. As a result, anti-virus software have specifically targeted the copy protection on Sony CDs and other releases with First 4 Internet’s XCP software, treating the rootkit DRM like they would any malicious virus. Congrats, Sony. This after Sony’s furious backpedalling on the issue; they’re now pledging to removve XCP from all their current and forthcoming releases, a far cry from the “no one knows what rootkits are” comment a couple of days earlier.