Winged wrote:

> nemo_outis wrote:
>> Here's a shocker: rootkit installed by Sony!
>>
>> Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far
>> http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/200...s-and-digital-
>> rights.html
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>
>
> I read this earlier today. I found it an excellent tutorial on running
> critters to ground. It is good work.
>
> The nested driver is an interesting trick, that has other applications.
>
> I question whether under the DCMA Sony can be prosecuted, even under
> California law as some of the blog commenters suggest. While Sony I
> believe may have avoided legal entanglements in the US due to clauses in
> the DCMA which overrides state law, it is morally contemptible.
>
> That said the measures can be bypassed easily and avoided if one is
> conscientious of the issue. I believe the lesson here is WinX users
> should turn off auto play, copying just the music files off original
> disk an burn them on a backup disk, then use the backup disk. I will
> consciously avoid Sony products, not only music, but for all Sony
> product lines, both business and personal,(Only wish I could do same for
> Microsoft).
>
> Sony is without honor.
>
> Company behaviors should always be considered before any purchase.
>
> This is not the first scum behavior I have seen with Sony. I had a VIAO
> desktop a few years back, where they had clipped the jumpers on the
> mobo, where the system could not easily be upgraded (I did, but required
> a soldering iron), though the motherboard was fully capable of the
> upgrade.
>
> While I am only one, it will be a cold day in a very warm place, before
> I knowingly purchase another of their products, irrespective of turn
> around in company policy. I suspect there will be a backlash to this
> behavior that Sony will reap, for many years to come.
>
> While I am not an activist, this is a very good reason to lobby
> legislators to roll back DCMA protections. Easy E-mail for US
> legislators of your state can be found here:
>
> http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
>
> Winged


Agreed. All people (expect me) at my company use Sony Viao laptops. I have
already forwarded this article to my boss and I will actively pursue
replacing Sony with another vendor. In short, they lost all of my respect
and do not deserve my (or my companies) money...

RIP Sony...

Imhotep