BoingBoing reported on friday that EMI is using very popular brazilian singer Marisa Monte’s new CDs to install malware on user’s computer. The rootkit blocks playing on Linux, MacOs and iPod, just as the brazilian government launched a project aiming to distribute 1 million linux PCs to the brazilian people.
We’ve seen this a few months ago, when Sony did the same thing, and then apologise when the whole thing blew way over proportions.