I'm very glad that you brought this to our attention, destro75! As I've mentioned, there is little chance that I'd have this issue since AudioCDs are a thing of the past for me. But then, unabated, this type of DRM might appear in other places. Best stopped at first sniff. kawecki: If the keys are encrypted, it would be difficult indeed. I doubt that they reside in "..../Sony/DRM/..." ;) And it really isn't a matter of DRM (burning CDs or whatnot). It is that this has potentially catastrophic side-effects and some already revealed real ones. Constant CPU usage is bad. When I'm not doing anything, my CPU usage is 0% as it should be. But a constant 2-5% is detrimental in one way or another. Plus, an exploit is to be exploited. Once the scum find a way to exploit any deficiency in this service, they could append their little service along with it and do anything (since they'll have administrator priviledges on a service patching the OS kernel). That is horrific to contemplate!

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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