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Bad Day To Be Sony
Not only is Sony no longer selling the RootKit CDs, Arend writes "According to a USAToday article, Sony is to pull their controversial rootkit CDs from store shelves." A nice gesture, but a little late. bos writes "Sony's DRM rootkit has been found by Dan Kaminsky to have infected at least half a million networks, according to an article by Quinn Norton for Wired News. Dan has even put together some pretty pictures of the breadth of the infection." With so many people infected, it's unfortunate that wiredog writes "From The Washington Post comes the news that serious security flaws have been found in the software that Sony is distributing to users who want to remove the Sony rootkit. The article says: 'Because of the way the tool is configured ... it allows any Web page that the user subsequently visits to download, install and run any code that it likes.'" Oops. Even Microsoft is getting into the act. ares284 writes "Microsoft said it would remove controversial copy-protection software that CDs from music publisher Sony BMG install on personal computers, deeming it a security risk to PCs running on Windows."
To have Microsoft call you on your bad business practices...
:D
The DRM WANTS to be free!
Do not confuse "Freedom of Choice" with "Free Will".
you should have tried $sys$fp. Then see if the moderators would have caught you. Oh well...
Well, do what I do. First, I get really pissed: then I will have nothing to do with the product or service. For example, I've been boycotting Slashdot.org for months now because of my disagreement with the modderation system. So,err, there! That's how you do it!
The Brotherhood of NOD has taken over 75% of the United States!
Now that I have already got GTA: Liberty City Stories for my PSP.
What do you bet that spyware/rootkits on music CDs disappear for the next few years?
Sustainability and energy independence essay
You know you screwed something up when Microsoft comes in and calls it a threat to the security of windows.
"Everything worth innovating today will go to court tomorrow."
this....
Disclaimer: In case those lawyers from Sony is not being work to death right now from all those demage lawsuit- I am joking.
"this will cost them a bundle as they will have to junk all thoes discs, make new masters etc, and this will be them admiting wrong doing" HMMMM Where have we seen this before: http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp However I think Atari's games had better music.
Joe Random, hacker, reading slashdot:
rootkit.. bad
microsoft.. good
hacker.. head explodes
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
Download them from the net. It's much safer. ;)
I specially liked the quote containing lyrics to a Twisted Sister song "We're not gonna take it". Okay people, get back to your American Idol reruns, nothing to see here.
They're yanking them from the shelves? Quick! Go get one so you can be harmed!*
(* "In a very real, and legally binding sense.")
Too bad Sony makes many CCDs for Canon cameras....
Here's to correcting the worlds grammar one person at a time.
:)
Wouldn't that be the world's grammar?
-pf
I've noticed this phenomenon too. Because there's no involvement with any facial muscle groups other than the lips, people have trouble interpreting the expression.
In this case, I assume folks are using cultural expectations of the behaviors of spokespuppets in TV commercials to resolve the lack of direct evidence and essentially assuming the grey-haired chap in the Menards' commercials is smiling.
But I've figured out the truth. It's not a smile, it's a predatory tooth-baring snarl.
Which is why the Menards' guy scares the bejeebus out of me. That, and how he's always going on about my nards. You leave my nards out of it, dammit.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Don't ask that question here. Ask your MP. I told my congress critter to either Drill ANWR or Sony, I don't care which :)
Enjoy,
It's just the normal noises in here.
Ah yes, broad generalization and stubborn ignorance, that'll solve the problem. Isn't that why they want DRM in the first place?
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
I like Userfriendly's take on it.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
According to the feedback page for Sony USA, you should call their Quality Management Department at 800-255-7514 (609-722-8224 in New Jersey) "if you believe a Sony Music product has a manufacturing defect". I would seem reasonable to give them the courtesy of doing what they ask for, and phone them before doing anything else.
Yes, please call them.
Several times.
Per day.
Each.
:)
Note to ACs: I usually delete AC replies without reading them. If you want to talk to me, log in.
Sony didn't just screw the pooch, my friend.. this is more than that.. straight-up goatse!!
I told my congress critter to either
Problem is, your congressman has an email address that ends with @sony.com.
Great - now how do we lobby a district attorney to go after Sony?
Who's the doochebag that went after DVD Jon? - Lets melt his phone lines until he knuckles under!
---- "Logoff! That cookie shit makes me nervous!" - A. Soprano
You monster!
After all, I am strangely colored.
Digital Restrictions Managment.
Digital Rights Management.
1. MS pays the Sony DRM people to include gaping security holes.
2. MS makes sure the story on the holes breaks.
3. MS has their cronies post "boycott PS3" on Amazon, Slashdot, blogs, etc.
4. People decide to buy the XBox 360 instead of waiting for the PS3.
</ConspiracyTheory>
"Vote with your dollars."
I don't have enough of them to matter.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
"Digital Rights Management."
Heh. And here I thought they were just self-labeling 'Drooling Retarded Morons'.
Thanks for clearing it up for me!
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So if I first hit you with a hammer - and then *stop*, I'm nice?
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I don't need a W800i. I don't need a W800i. It's from the evil Sony and uses their own memory card standard. I don't need a W800i bundled with a 512MB proprietary MemoryStick Duo memory card. I don't need a W800i bundled with a 512MB memory card and a 2MPx camera. I don't need it.
DANG IT'S NOT WORKING!!! HELP!
Please leave the DRM on the Ricky Martin and Celine Dion CDs. If you could make the DRM stronger so that they can't be played on ANY device, that would be even better.
Sincerely,
Everyone
Dear Sony,
I am boycotting all Sony products until the following demands have been met.
Thank you for your time.
I don't know the word you're looking for, but let's call it a Miers-Alito.
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