The anti-piracy software loaded onto the CDs was meant to stop illegal copying, but it was found that the program inadvertently made computers vulnerable to viruses.
Now, however, the tables are turned for those who may have once been the bane of the music label--provided they recently bought its CDs which were loaded with controversial anti-piracy software.
It provides another measure of the scale of softwarepiracy and allows for important year-over-year comparisons of changes in the softwarepiracy landscape.