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List of CDs Infected with Sony's Rootkit DRM



The following compact discs, sold by Sony BMG, were shipped with the computer software known as Extended Copy Protection (XCP). As a result, any Microsoft Windows computer used to play these CDs is likely to have had XCP installed. This can cause a number of serious security problems. Several security software vendors, including Microsoft, regard XCP as a trojan horse, spyware, or rootkit. macOS systems used to play these CDs may have been affected by a similar program, MediaMax.

7 Days in Memphis - Peter Gallagher

12 Songs - Neil Diamond

At This Time - Burt Bacharach

The Best of Shel Silverstein - Shel Silverstein

B in the Mix: The Remixes - Britney Spears

Bob Brookmeyer & Friends - Bob Brookmeyer

The Body Acoustic - Cyndi Lauper

Broken Valley - Life of Agony

Cautivo - Chayanne

Complicated - Nivea

The Dead 60s - The Dead 60s

Dreamin' My Dreams - Patty Loveless

Drum Suite - Art Blakey

The Essential - Dion Dion

The Essential Pete Seeger - Pete Seeger

Faso Latido - A Static Lullaby

Foggy Mountain Jamboree - Flatt & Scruggs

Friendship - Ray Charles

Get Right with the Man - Van Zant

Goldon - Elkland

Great American Songbook - Billie Holiday

Great American Songbook - Frank Sinatra

Great American Songbook - Louis Armstrong

Healthy in Paranoid Times - Our Lady Peace

I Saw the Light With Some Help from My Friends - Earl Scruggs

Interiors - Rosanne Cash

The Invisible Invasion - The Coral

Jeru - Gerry Mulligan

King's Record Shop - Rosanne Cash

Life - Ricky Martin

G3: Live in Tokyo - G3

Manhattan Symphonie - Dexter Gordon

Mary Mary - Mary Mary

My Very Special Guests George Jones

Nothing Is Sound - Switchfoot

On ne change pas - Celine Dion

Phantoms - Acceptance

Rebirth - Jennifer Lopez

Ride - Shelly Fairchild

Robbery - Teena Marie

The Season - Jane Monheit

Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash

Shine - Trey Anastasio

Silver's Blue - Horace Silver Quintet

Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook - Bette Midler

Something to Be Proud Of: The Best of 1999–2005 - Montgomery Gentry

Susie Suh - Susie Suh

Suspicious Activity? - The Bad Plus

This Is Me... Then - Jennifer Lopez

This Is Niecy - Deniece Williams

Times Like These - Buddy Jewell

To Love Again: The Duets - Chris Botti

Touch - Amerie

Unfabulous and More - Emma Roberts

Unwritten Natasha - Bedingfield

VivianVivian - Green

Walking Among the Living - Jon Randall

Who We Are - Hope Partlow

It's obvious that major corporations will do whatever they want when the bottom line is threatened. We need to be policing their behavior and holding them accountable for their actions.

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