Re: Bad-CD update Sep/Oct 2004

Philip Hunt <zen19725-1HOZaDBbGgxaa/[email protected]> Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:01:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.law.eucd.ukcdr
Message-ID <04100319010500.01778@cabalamat>
On Sunday 03 October 2004  1:42 pm, Jim Peters wrote:
> Only one thing really interesting to report.  Someone wrote as follows:
>
>   Avril Lavigne's "Under My Skin" installs a set of ASPI driver files
>   dated 1999 with no warning or prompting if the disc is allowed to
>   autorun.  When I emailed BMG about this, asking how to restore my
>   original files, they were unable to help, but did offer me a
>   non-protected copy of the disc - a bit pointless, given that I had
>   already ripped it, in spite of the copy protection...
>
> Now, this is illegal under the Computer Misuse Act, isn't it?  Another
> person reported that inserting the disc corrupted his Nero
> installation.

Sounds illegal to me. Has anyone contacted the police about this?

-- 
Phil Hunt