Sony’s anti-piracy tactics slammed

The report says one of Sony’s copy protection system uses cloaked files to hide deep inside Windows, similar to files used by computer virus writers to hide code from anti-virus scanners.

Although resembling a virus, the hidden files are generated by an anti-copying system called Extended Copy Protection (XCP), which has been criticised for being poorly written software that cannot be uninstalled. However, Sony says there are ways of removing the software and says the latest versions of XCP have moved away from using hidden files.

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