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Texas Sues Sony BMG over Rootkit
Mr. Sketch writes "According to Yahoo!, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott 'filed a civil lawsuit on Monday against Sony BMG Music Entertainment for including "spyware" software on its media player designed to thwart music copying. [...] Texas is seeking civil penalties of $100,000 per violation of the state's Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act, which was enacted earlier this year. "Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers," Abbott said in a statement.'"
"Part of me died when he died," Garza said in an interview with the Chronicle. "You've got a 17-year-old who went to his grave for something he did not do. Texas murdered an innocent person."
So the kid who refused to come forward until AFTER the execution says Texas murdered this kid?
I'm not a big pro-death penatly guy. On my list of conservative causes I care about it's, no wait, it's not on the list. Innocent people have been killed, I don't think that's a fair trade for killing any number of serial killers who'd already been caught. But still, this kind of soppy blame-the-state, all-individuals-are-victims reporting is just obnoxious.
-stormin
The Southern Baptist Convention has creationism. On Slashdot, we have porn.
Oh-ho, the Bush bashers get modded +5 funny and the Clinton bashers get -1 offtopic. And they say ./ isn't partisan.
'The staff in the hand of a wizard may be more than a prop for age,' -Hamá, the doorward