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Music Industry Backlash Against Sony Rootkit
Foobar of Borg writes "The Associated Press describes how backlash from Sony's Rootkit CDs is causing problems for the music industry. The problem is two-fold: (1) the inherent technological problem of trying to prevent anyone from copying anything and (2) letting lawyers make technical decisions when (from the article) 'Lawyers don't have any better understanding of technology than a cow does algebra.'" More from the article: "'I think they've set back audio CD protection by years,' said Richard M. Smith, an Internet privacy and security consultant. 'Nobody will want to pull a Sony now.' Phil Leigh, analyst for Inside Digital Media, said the debacle shows just how reluctant the labels are to change their business model to reflect the distribution powers -- good and bad -- of the Internet. He believes that rather than adopting technological methods to try to stop unauthorized copying of music, record companies need to do more to remove the incentive for piracy."
The comment by that little monkey who is HEAD???!!! OF SONY'S GLOBAL???!!! DIGITAL BUSINESS!!!! about most people don't even know what a rootkit is shows that THESE BASTARDS ARE OUT TO SCREW THE PAYING CUSTOMER. they have no care for anyone other than their accountants and reports they get from them. Screw these assholes. that little --- up there just don't know himself such simple technical stuff and he gets PAID ALL THE BIG $$$BUCKS$$$ (Maybe $$$Millions a year including stock options, allowances etc).
NOT SURPRISING THEN THAT HE DUG SONY SUCH A DEEP HOLE AND SONY IS NOW UP TO ITS EYEBALLS WALLOWING IN DEEP $HIT. Greatest performance for such an arrogant GLOBAL???!! HEAD???!!! Now are you surprised why their music is so expensive?? Just paying big money to put up there little monkeys who DON'T KNOW ANYTHING let alone run a Corporation.