The second largest company producing music CDs worldwide, Sony Entertainment BMG, has finally agreed to temporarily stop making music CDs using the antipiracy technology that caused so much controversy over the last few weeks.

If in the beginning it was only a moral issue of having such a great company install basically spyware, since it was discovered that rootkits could be used to trigger hacker attacks, later, things got a lot more complicated.

Even if Sony still claims it has the right to know exactly what happens with these CD's and make sure they don't get multiplied more than a limited number of times, the company has decided to give up in the "XCP" technology. The future solution to be included on the Sony CDs will have to match the same security requirements and should also be easy to use by the consumer.

The antipiracy technology, compatible only with the Windows operating system, prevents customers from making more than a few copies of the CD and prevents them from loading the CD's songs onto the popular iPod music players.