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Sony understands only one language… MONEY. I stopped buying their products since they installed a root kit decades ago in my computer to prevent it from ripping my legally bought CDs to my computer. I had to reinstall windows to get rid of that virus. Never again! And all my electronics were Sony back then

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Hey, just wanted to say I’m glad a few of us remember the rootkit fiasco. I still won’t buy Sony products today.

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Yeah, fuck those rootkits. Despicable.

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Same here. This was such a hostile move I never bought anything “Sony” after that.

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Don’t forget the “fix” Sony offered after they were initally caught was an even MORE invasive rootkit. 🫠

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A) which CD did you buy that had the Sony rootkit? B) decades ago? No. It’s only been 18 years.

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Sarah McLachlan, Surfacing. Shout out to Mark Russinovich for exposing it.

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They do something similar on their smart TVs - it’s not possible to run Kodi with torrent streaming plugins, they block it on purpose.

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How is it blocked? Could you work around it with a debrid service? i.e no torrent protocol

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I didn’t further investigated it, however I remember that the Kodi remote app port worked, but the torrent streaming port (Elementum specifically) didn’t.

While on the Xiaomi Mi Box S it worked.

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