Comments on: More on Sony DRM screw-up

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:00:46 +0000

Cool, more websites are starting to pick up on it now. With any luck the lamescream media outlets will hear about it and start doing their usual chicken little impersonations. Maybe we’ll get drm killed off for another few years.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/04/HNsonydrm_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/04/HNsonydrm_1.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20051105/tc_cmp/173403155
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051105/wr_nm/software_dc

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 21:22:46 +0000

“Teaming up together to attack Americans….Hmmm.. ”

Hmmm and the CEO of SONY is called Howard Stringer. What was his nationality again…

*Plonk*

P.S This is no issue of nationality it’s an issue of global media companies vs consumer’s worldwide

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 20:56:33 +0000

And that, in my opinion, constitutes the remaining requirement for a rootkit. The malware actually DOES open a remote connection, albeit not a person-to-person one. Certainly anyone at their end COULD use the connection, no?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:02:22 +0000

I agree.
Also join this boycott: http://www.say-no.se/
I’ve been on that boycott since may, and will continue to be even after it’s over.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:30:01 +0000

Don’t buy anything from Sony-BMG. They have no respect for their customers, so show them no respect. Don’t buy from them and make a point of copying all your Sony-BMG CDs for your friends.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:39:01 +0000

The player even phones home. After the execs say it doesn’t.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 07:28:24 +0000

So if something untoward has happened to my computer ( banking info theft or something similar) and I can prove that Sony’s DRM software was responsible for the security hole that allowed it does that mean that Sony is liable for my losses ?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:10:14 +0000

http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 03:14:26 +0000

It may not necessarily be a rootkit, but it is pretty stupid how they think they can just put software on a computer without telling the user.

About it being a rootkit, see this:
http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/11/03/sony_bmg_xcp_is_it_a_rootkit/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 01:14:06 +0000

Let’s see, Sony/BMG a Japanese/German Alliance.

Teaming up together to attack Americans….Hmmm..

Seems this has happened once before, and we all know how that one ended.