Freedom of piracy is one of the greatest freedoms the humanity gained in the most important virtual battle of all. Read more in Konst's column.

Say, what do Ozzy Osbourne and a rootkit have in common? First of all, both are pieces of a very old technology. And both are released and successfully distributed by Sony Music. Not for free, of course. Well, good rootkits must cost money.

When asked to write about a thing such as commercially distributed hidden rootkits, one can hardly say anything new. During the past weeks, every bit of an opinion has been written. I hate Sony - wrote some. They gonna get me - wrote others. While some folks said, I don’t care or Pass me that CD again.

The whole Sony CD buzz made me come up with a short futuristic story. An imaginable security news report in November 2014 issue of hakin9. Here goes:

It has been 10 years since Sony BMG first introduced its groundbreaking solution to effectively protect copyrighted content. Since that time, many major recording, software and publishing companies adapted and improved the technology, to which we owe the absolute inexistence of one of the worst problems of the beginning of the century - piracy. From the modern world, free of pirate software and CDs, let us look back into the history of the fight against piracy.

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