The following compact discs, sold by Sony BMG, were shipped with the computer software known as Extended Copy Protection (XCP).[1] As a result, any Microsoft Windows computer that has been 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.[2] MacOS systems that were used to play these CDs may have been affected with a similar program, MediaMax.[3]
Album list
edit| Title | Artist | Item Number(s) |
UPC(s) | Record Club Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Songs | Neil Diamond | CK94776 CK97811 |
827969477625 827969781128 |
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| At This Time | Burt Bacharach | CK97734 | 827969773420 | — |
| The Best of Shel Silverstein | Shel Silverstein | CK94722 | 827969472224 | D162100 |
| Bob Brookmeyer & Friends | Bob Brookmeyer | CK94292 | 827969429228 | D162087 |
| The Body Acoustic | Cyndi Lauper | EK94569 | 827969456927 | — |
| Broken Valley | Life of Agony | EK93515 | 827969351529 | D161228 |
| Cautivo | Chayanne | LAK96819 LAK96818 LAK95886 |
037629681921 037629681822 037629588626 |
— |
| Complicated | Nivea | 82876671562 | 828766715620 | D161353 |
| The Dead 60s | The Dead 60s | EK94453 | 827969445327 | — |
| Dreamin' My Dreams | Patty Loveless | EK94481 | 827969448120 | — |
| Drum Suite | Art Blakey | CK93637 | 827969363720 | D162083 |
| The Essential Dion | Dion | CK92670 | 827969267028 | D161439 |
| The Essential Pete Seeger | Pete Seeger | CK92835 | 827969283523 | D161441 |
| Faso Latido | A Static Lullaby | CK92772 | 827969277225 | D161263 |
| Foggy Mountain Jamboree | Flatt & Scruggs | CK92801 | 827969280126 | D162400 |
| Friendship | Ray Charles | CK94564 | 827969456422 | D161917 |
| Get Right with the Man | Van Zant | CK93500 | 827969350027 | D161459 |
| Golden | Elkland | CK92036 | 827969203620 | D161431 |
| Great American Songbook | Billie Holiday | CK94294 | 827969429426 | — |
| Great American Songbook | Frank Sinatra | CK94291 | 827969429129 | — |
| Great American Songbook | Louis Armstrong | CK94295 | 827969429525 | — |
| Healthy in Paranoid Times | Our Lady Peace | CK94777 | 827969477724 | — |
| I Saw the Light With Some Help from My Friends | Earl Scruggs | CK92793 | 827969279328 | D162399 |
| Interiors | Rosanne Cash | CK93655 | 827969365526 | — |
| The Invisible Invasion | The Coral | CK94747 | 827969474723 | — |
| Jeru | Gerry Mulligan | CK65498 | 074646549827 | D162086 |
| King's Record Shop | Rosanne Cash | CK86994 | 696998699427 | — |
| G3: Live in Tokyo | G3 | E2K97685 | 827969768525 | — |
| Manhattan Symphonie | Dexter Gordon | CK93581 | 827969358122 | D162084 |
| Mary Mary | Mary Mary | CK94812 CK92948 |
000768353721 827969294826 |
D162005 |
| My Very Special Guests | George Jones | E2K92562 | 827969256220 | D200250 |
| Nothing Is Sound | Switchfoot | CK96534 CK96437 CK94581 |
827969653425 827969643723 827969458129 |
— |
| On ne change pas | Celine Dion | E2K97736 | 827969773628 | — |
| Phantoms | Acceptance | CK89016 | 696998901629 | D161429 |
| Ride | Shelly Fairchild | CK90355 | 827969035528 | D161531 |
| Robbery | Teena Marie | EK93817 | 827969381724 | — |
| The Season | Jane Monheit | EK97721 | 827969772126 | — |
| Seven Year Ache | Rosanne Cash | CK86997 | 696998699724 | — |
| Shine | Trey Anastasio | CK96428 | 827969642825 | — |
| Silver's Blue | Horace Silver Quintet | CK93856 | 827969385623 | D162082 |
| Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook | Bette Midler | CK95107 CK74815 |
827969510728 828767481524 |
— |
| Something to Be Proud Of: The Best of 1999–2005 | Montgomery Gentry | CK75324 CK94982 |
828767532424 827969498224 |
— |
| Susie Suh | Susie Suh | EK92443 | 827969244326 | D161094 |
| Suspicious Activity? | The Bad Plus | CK94740 | 827969474020 | — |
| This Is Niecy | Deniece Williams | CK93814 | 827969381427 | — |
| Times Like These | Buddy Jewell | CK92873 | 827969287323 | D161532 |
| To Love Again: The Duets | Chris Botti | CK94823 | 827969482322 | — |
| Touch | Amerie | CK90763 | 827969076323 | D161365 |
| Unfabulous and More | Emma Roberts | CK93950 CK97684 |
827969395028 827969768426 |
— |
| Unwritten | Natasha Bedingfield | EK93988 | 827969398821 | D162095 |
| Vivian | Vivian Green | CK90761 | 827969076125 | D161824 |
| Walking Among the Living | Jon Randall | EK92083 | 827969208328 | — |
Note: Three titles — Ricky Martin, "Life"; Peter Gallagher, "7 Days in Memphis"; and a limited number of “Hidden Beach Presents Unwrapped Vol. 4” — were released with a content protection grid on the back of the CD packaging but XCP content protection software was not actually included on the albums.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Sony officially lists 52 XCP infected CDs & faces a loss of sales". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
- ^ "Microsoft to Zap Sony DRM Rootkit". eWEEK. 12 November 2005.
- ^ "Analysis of the MediaMax CD3 Copy-Prevention System". jhalderm.com.
- ^ "CD's Containing XCP Content Protection Technology". Archived from the original on October 12, 2007.