While complaining of infringement issues for their products, they don’t bat an eye when it comes to others infringements that would benefit them. That was readily demonstrated with the required player as part of the rootkit affair. Sony uses the charge of it being third party developers responsible for it but it wasn’t third party that distributed it. As they so love to charge others with distribution when it comes to IP property rights, it is their responsibility as the distributor to know what they are distributing.

After all according to their CEO, why would a customer even care what a rootkit is? Once caught, then it was worming around on the hook, trying to milk the situation for datamining, and all at the same time claiming it was no concern for the customer. Sony did everything it could NOT to come clean, weaseled every way it could to get benefit from those wronged customers, including denying the whole mess until their nose was rubbed in it publicly. If they will do that with software and your computer, what else will they do? Put a temporary monitor chip in your computer to report back? Require your player have internet connection to work? I put nothing above this corporation for underhanded and dirty tactics. I sure as heck am not going to reward this type of actions and attitudes with my money. When I see the brand Sony, I look for other brands. If they are not there, I walk out of the store and look elsewhere.

I am not going to buy electronic that include rootkit and other DRM crap nor Blank Blue ray disk, CD or DVD that will fall apart after few years! Deu! For the time beieng I am happy with my CD and DVD even thought Blue Ray copy protection is already cracked.