Interestingly enough, Sony seems to be responding to all the heat already. I found a readily available link to the ActiveX control-based uninstall mentioned above: http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html/.
Note that I'm not endorsing the use of this tool as it requires allowing another Sony software tool to run on your system via IE and, as was noted above, puts more ActiveX crap on your system.
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Interestingly enough, Sony seems to be responding to all the heat already. I found a readily available link to the ActiveX control-based uninstall mentioned above: http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html/. Note that I'm not endorsing the use of this tool as it requires allowing another Sony software tool to run on your system via IE and, as was noted above, puts more ActiveX crap on your system.