Sony BMG is on everyone’s lips this week, and for once they aren’t talking about the PSP or music downloads.

This week they are talking about the fact that Sony has secretly embedded First4Internet’s XCP2 rootkit-like software on their CDs, which while perhaps intended only for digital rights management (DRM), actually not only spies on what you are doing and reports that back to the Sony BMG mothership, but it also opens up your computer to risk by allowing other, even more malicious spyware and other programs to slip in undetected and take over your machine’s processes.

Now, to be sure, I doubt that Sony intended this situation when it arranged with First4Internet to use its XCP2 on Sony BMG CDs. Sony would tell you that all it was trying to do was make sure that you used only its media player with its CDs on your computer. Never mind that it’s your computer, you paid good money for the CD, and so long as you aren’t copying and pirating its material, with what you choose to view the material should be none of its business.

This was all blown wide open when…

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