Sony DRM Installed Even When EULA Declined

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 22, 2005 @04:56AM from the damned-if-you-don't dept.

HikingStick writes "News.com is reporting that the Texas attorney general is expanding the allegations against Sony. It seems the software would install even if users declined the EULA. From the article: 'The Texas attorney general said on Wednesday that he added a new claim to a lawsuit charging Sony BMG Music Entertainment with violating the state's laws on deceptive trade practices by hiding 'spyware' on its compact discs ... The new charges brought by Abbott contend that MediaMax software used by Sony BMG to thwart illegal copying of music on CDs violated state laws because it was downloaded even if users rejected a license agreement.'"

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Re:Can anyone here see a problem? by Pray_4_Mojo · 2005-12-22 06:10 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Dada21,

If you're going to require the law to be signed by the president and understood by people with at least a 3rd grade education, how can you be sure the president knows what he's signing?

This will probably get flamed as troll. Flame away. People who've known him claim to high heaven (literally) that he didn't talk that way when he was getting an MBA at Yale. But that was before he drank heavily for 15-20 odds years.

Thank the lord Jesus saved him before alcohalism took his eloquence.