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Sony's EULA Worse Than Its Rootkit?
jaaron writes "If you think the Sony rootkit is bad, check out the accompanying EULA! From the EFF's summary: 'If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home. ... Sony-BMG can install and use backdoors in the copy protection software or media player to "enforce their rights" against you, at any time, without notice. ... Forget about using the music as a soundtrack for your latest family photo slideshow, or mash-ups, or sampling.'"
It's time to take SONY to the woodshed. Don't purchase anything with any SONY signature
So will you be buying the XBOX 360, oh wait. That's a convicted monopolist. I guess your stuck with the Revolution. I hope you don't actually like console games. Or else you'll be stuck playing Pikachu's .
No that never works
While technically true, why do I care if people are stupid enough to buy crippled music (or is that music from cripples)? I'm not being affected by it, instead I'm enjoying lots of music from a wide range of talented artists at a lower price (and quite likely more talented people). If people want to buy CDs that installs spyware on their computer and allows the company to go in and delete that person's files, what business is it of mine?
Without going on and on about this, if you have problems with M$ and SONY, you don't have a choice for next-gen gaming because we all know Nintendo will crash and burn because of their crappy controller.
~ Mooga
shuddup you idiot.