They really messed up her sales, she would've sold a lot more if SONY wouldn't have put practically a virus on the cd... Poor girl.

THANK GOD I haven't put her cd in my computer yet!


As many people may know by now, Sony was recently caught with egg on their face when a security specialist found out that a recently purchased CD (Van Zant: Get Right With The Man) from Sony music not only installed DRM software (digital rights management, to limit and outright prevent copying music to certain devices), but it did so in such a sneaky way that it hid itself entirely from Windows, and opened the system up to security issues such as viruses.

This CD has the same copyright protection, called XCP. When installed, Sony hijacks your computer and installs custom software which:

1) Hides itself entirely from Windows by installing as a rootkit
2) Hides itself in such a manner that any files begining with $sys$ are also hidden. For example, if you install the XCP copy protection software on your machine, and rename "document.doc" to "$sys$document.doc" it then becomes invivisble to you forever.
3) Installs its own custom CD-Rom drivers to hijack your system. It also sneakily names these drivers "Plug and Play Device Manager" to seem as if it's a part of Windows. Trying to delete these drivers manually will disable your CD-Rom drive entirely.
4) Offers no uninstall option until you manually contact Sony

LMAO, you act like she's the only artist who's CD was encrypted with this kind of technology.

Her and a very few others were before sony had to take them off the market, a lot of cd's are protected, but not as bad as hers was.

MY COMPUTER GOT ****ED BECAUSE OF THAT ****!!! OMG!!!! I always rip CD's to my computer... now MY CD/DVD E: DRIVE DOES NOT WORK!!! It hasn't for awhile! *cries*

Oh!!!!!!! Amerie's album is perfect

I may not like Amerie, but I'm disgusted by Sony with these viruses on the CDs.

I don't like Amerie, but wtf. People should sue Sony cuz they have no right to do that.

I mean really, if you want to put it on your iPod you have to get a virus. That's ********

That's terrible. I would file if the damage is extensive, I don't see Sony coming forward with any compinsations.

The only track that I've liked from Amerie was "One Thing", and its already on the Hitch Soundtrack, which I proudly own

touch is delicious,really hot

I agree... I'm surprised that there hasn't been a major lawsuit in Sony's hands yet. Who knows, maybe one may be in the works

People are supposibly suing SONY because of damages to their computer and other things... I think some are in the process now.

Good^ even if there weren't any damages they should not be allowed to have such spyware embedding itself into people's machines without their knowledge, without consent and without an uninstall ALL components option. Even if they wrote a disclaimer on the Disc/packaging, people simply buying a CD as acknowledgement of that and hence some kind of allowance, is not good enough especially as it was not widely publicised/campaigned.

Touch was allright, it didn't have the same appeal as One Thing for me. I heard the One Thing Remix last night, and I really like that.


I'm suprised the media hasn't given much insight into this situation.