D*mn Sony music CD's!!!

[dunlopj]

I've bought a Sony CD for an artist named Buddy Jewel.

When I loaded in and tried to rip it using Audiograbber, my Kaspersky software came up with a warning about a trojan, but could not quarantine it.

Now there are two processes running in the background called "CDProxyServ.exe" and "$sys$DRMServer.exe".

According to Google, they are a PIA to get rid of.

Any idea what they are? And how can I get rid of them?

I'm guessing it's some kind of "smack on the hand" from Sony for trying to rip it.

 

[Guest]

This was an issue with Buddy Jewel's cd (and I want to say the first Van Zandt disc Sony put out too).

This was back when labels were trying to combat piracy and Sony thought this would be a good way to discourage people ripping their discs. You apparently got one of the bad discs (Sony has since pulled the offending discs off the market supposedly).

Like you said, you googled it and there should be steps in one of the searched on how to get rid of it, but you are right, it is a PITA

 

[MusicMeister]

IIRC Sony replaced a lot of those discs because of the law suit.

I'd just follow the directions online to get rid of it. And yes, it's nasty.

If you have a non-windows computer - ie linux, you can probably rip it. If you don't have a linux computer around, consider downloading Knoppix (which allows you to boot to 'linux' without having to install it) and then rip the disk. You will probably want to have a thumb drive formatted in FAT32 to rip it to though. Chances are your main drive is NTFS and most operating systems don't play well with NTFS.

 

[DjDennis]

I would also go back to the store and either get a refund or demand the non copy protected version or they could be in yet another law suite for infecting you with a virus and then contact the FBI in regards to this as it seems Sony is in trouble yet again with this DRM crap and what they have done!