Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist reports that a coalition of Canadian industry groups, including the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Marketing Association, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association and the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, are demanding legalized spyware for private enforcement purposes. The potential scope of coverage is breathtaking: a software program secretly installed by an entertainment software company designed to detect or investigate alleged copyright infringement would be covered by this exception. This exception could potentially cover programs designed to block access to certain websites (preventing the contravention of a law as would have been the case with SOPA), attempts to access wireless networks without authorization, or even keylogger programs tracking unsuspecting users (detection and investigation)."

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Re:Only over my dead body

[mcgrew]

If I find that someone (Person or corporate entity.) has installed software on MY computer without my explicit permission, they will be explaining to law enforcement why they think they have the right.

LOL, who went to prison for Sony's XCP? I was bitten by Sony's malware almost ten years ago but idiots keep buying Sony's shit. It cost them NOTHING, I'll never EVER buy another Sony product but I'm one in seven billion.

Someone should have gone to prison for deliberately infecting thousands of their paying customers' PCs, but no... rich people only go to prison when they fuck over someone with more wealth and power.

Is there a silver lining in this cloud? FOSS will benefit... a tiny bit. There are too many people stupid enough to buy Sony products after XCP, OtherOS, and all the other fuckings over they served their paying customers.

If you have mod points and buy Sony, mod me flamebait because I'm calling you a fucking moron. God damned dumbasses. Yes, I'm still pissed and I still want someone in prison over this, but governments are and have always been owned by the rich. Expect malware in your proprietary shitware.

I want Sony to fucking DIE. Unfortunately, they won't be bothered one tiny bit. They can do any damned thing they want to you. Bend over and take it, serfs.