They already did, they were the ones who put in the hooks that make
adware and malware possible, on purpose, to _serve_ _you_ better.
John Forbes wrote:
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
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
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