> > From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/11/04 Fri PM 12:04:59 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re: OT: Interesting article for those who buy Sony music CDs. > > I agree. And it raises two other questions. > > The first, posited by a respondent on one of the lists that mention this > outrage, was: "What now is the meaning of "trusted content?"". If you > can't trust Sony not to illegally and deviously infect your PC with > damaging virus-like software, who can you trust? > > And the second point is this: If Sony are prepared to act like this, what > might that even bigger and more ruthless company, Microsoft, be prepared > to do? Sony's inept effort was easy for a competent programmer to spot, > but Microsoft could embed something so deeply into an otherwise perfectly > innocent and valid program that nobody would know it was there. They > might even have done it. And it might well already be in Longhorn, or > whatever they call the next version of Windows. > > Time for another look at Linux, methinks. > > Of course, this whole issue is caused by an industry that can't accept, > and refuses to adapt to, a fundamental change to its business model. > > John
It's immaterial to me anyway. I would never buy a music CD that required the use of onboard player software. It's such an obvious gateway that I would avoid it like something to really avoid. I do the same with "catalogue" CDs that require software installation. Just the data, please. > > > On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:48:23 -0000, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > >> > >> From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> If enough people get to hear of this, Sony stand to lose a gigantic > >> amount > >> of money. > > > >> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:47:35 -0000, mike wilson > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html > >> > > > > > What I found really shocking was not so much that Sony did it, as that > > it did it so badly. With the resources it has at its disposal, Sony has > > shown itself to be managed by the same sort of plonkers that infest > > every other organisation. You could expect a multinational corporation > > to act in a high handed manner. I would also expect that it would try > > to do so effectively, discreetly and in a manner that would draw as > > little attention (of the bad sort) to itself as possible. Not the case > > here. > > > > m > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > Email sent from www.ntlworld.com > > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software > > Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
