First read the story on slashdot.org. Then composed this email to a few friends. Thought it was worth blogging for my legions of fans. Damn you Beastie Boys. Damn you right to Hell. You are the last people I would expect this from...

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So much for respecting the beastie boys

I was *gonna* buy the new disk...but now I gotta pause. I'm all for supporting the artist, but music CDs that surreptitiously install crap on my machine piss me off. Funny thing is that I had the disk a week before the copy protected version was released. Who do they think they're stopping?

slashdot story

original post apparently made by an MIT guy

thread about the copy protection on beastieboys.com