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Article by the Verge: It reports on technical difficulties encountered by movie theatre chain Alamo Drafthouse which prevented them from showing digital projections, due to software problems with Sony projectors.

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[-] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 28 points 10 months ago

Back in the mid 00's their CDs had a rootkit on them that installed software to interfere with CD Copying apparently also some of them phoned home with your listening habits. Stuff was hard if not impossible to remove, used system resources, crashed computers and was a security hole, just plain shity

[-] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thx a lot!

Holy shit thats dystopian shit.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

IIRC, it became widely known that Sony was doing this after malware exploiting it became widespread enough to be noticed.

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