List of compact discs sold with Extended Copy Protection
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
Title | Artist |
---|---|
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 |
Vivian | Vivian Green |
Walking Among the Living | Jon Randall |
Who We Are | Hope Partlow |
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
- "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.
External links
- Sony BMG list of XCP CDs
- EFF list of XCP CDs
- Geoffrey McCalebs list of XCP CDs Archived 2005-11-24 at the Wayback Machine