Music publisher Sony BMG said on Friday it would stop making CDs that use controversial copyright protection software. The copyright protection software which automatically installs when a consumer inserted a music CD with the XCP digital rights management technology in their computers is designed to limit the number of copies that users can make of the CD and restrict ripping of the disk.

From Sony's point of view, its motives are reasonable; but security experts say this is a potential threat to security. Sony however denied that the technology is malicious, or compromises security in any way reports Techtree.com

The software sparked a class action lawsuit against Sony in California last week, claiming that Sony has not informed consumers that it installs software directly into the "roots" of their computer systems with rootkit software, which cloaks all associated files and is dangerous to remove reports Reuters