On 1/14/10, Keith Whaley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sony has been good for me but I sum up my refusal to buy Sony product > > and technology in one word: rootkit. > > Would you care to elaborate? That makes no sense to me.
Sony put "copy protection" software on music CDs that installed onto any Windows box where the CD was played and sent info to Sony. This was done without the user's knowledge or consent, the stuff deliberately hid itself from the user, and was nearly impossible to uninstall. Best analysis I've seen: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/11/sonys_drm_rootk.html A web search on "sony rootkit" will turn up much more. As far as I know Italy was the only country that actually initiated prosecution under their cybercrime laws. Anyone know how that came out? In the US, there were consumer lawsuits, settled out of court. Details on eff.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
