Sorry for the off-topic post. Earlier I first read that Beastie Boys’ New Album Silently Installs DRM Code at FlexBeta.net. I’m no fan of DRM and I think what record companies are currently doing is flawed. I mean you need to disable the auto-run or just press Shift after you insert the CD, to bypass this funny attempt at DRM.
Now, I was delighted to see that The Register labeled the act accordingly: The installed app, without users consent, is a Virus: tagged ‘Capitol Records virus’. Read it here.
Beastie Boys say that it’s Capitol Records doing… Sad.
I hope anti-virus vendors update their tools soon 
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Check it out, More info on the Beastie Boys’ site…
http://beastieboys.com/news.php
Beastie Boys site says that no software is installed to the harddisk for ‘copy contolled CDs’.
Still, if a software is run without users consent, then it qualifies as a virus.
That’s crazy! I remember in ’98 hearing them on the radio upset and a little sad & irritated at the record companies not embracing mp3 technology; they had mp3′s of 2 songs posted on their website, and they were taken down extremely quickly, WAYY before mp3z were popular.
More blog posts about this:
http://www.nathanpitman.com/blog/index.php?id=204
http://www.flash-mx.com/news/archives/000124.cfm
And now I see I could’ve made this post on-topic by making a comment about Macrovision and Macromedia
More info now available at:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/16/beastie_boys_not_viral/