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The "in depth" link at your "interesting bit..." link provides an excellent summary of what's happened, although it omits some of the nastier "side effects."

The "Player" used in the Sony DRM installation has been identified by at least one reliable researcher as being by Macromedia. The ordinary assumption would be that First4Internet added all the "bad code" to an innocent suppliers product; but Macromedia's own predatory marketing and distribution of their other products suggests that perhaps they might be where the GPL and LGPL copyright infringements may have been first incorporated. Information on exactly what code was illegaly used are sketchy, but the bits appear to be something that might be useful for Macromedia's own distribution methods. Just a suspicion, and probably biased by my own "pissed at Macromedia" attitude. Hiding fragments of one's EULA so that it requires one to follow 32 separate links to find out what's being agreed to, as Macromedia has done on their latest Flash release, might not meet someone's description of "concealment," but it's a pretty #!@%! good "disguise."

John