The story about Sony's new copyright right protection software keeps getting more and more twisted. In response to the many security problems, apparently Sony will be recalling some 4.7 million CD's. It now sounds like Sony has engaged in massive IP piracy. Members of the open source community have determined that part of the application makes use of LAME, an open source MP3 encoder. LAME is made available under the copyleft LGPL, "which requires that any program that tightly integrates its code into its executable must acknowledge this use and release the full source code to their program" (Ars Technica). According to Wired News, Sony and "First4Internet, which sold the XCP software program used by Sony BMG on its CDs, declined to comment after repeated requests since Monday." I seriously hope the FSF sues Sony for copyright infringement.

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