Comments on: Sony DRM goes on MS spyware list

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:14:15 +0000

Play Sony/BMG music on a Playstation 2? That’s what they wanted all along-to scare us away from Microsoft, and Bill Gates fights back by declaring Sony(rightfully) as a spyware vendor. Bill Gates has done the same thing many times, but it’s not spyware, it’s part of windows. All giant multi-billion dollor companies are corrupt. Let them fight but ps2 owns xbox and at least this generation of Nintendo, at least Sony can’t meaningfully bug my ps2 and I never seen that EULA, so I’m happy for now. No rootkit! I hope Sony games for pc don’t have this although I guess it’s been removed from all copies that did have if games were ever an issue. This story blew me away though, I always thought Bill Gates had more ability to do this and good antispyware agents like Hijack This! and good removal tools would reveal the rest. This is one of my first visits here and I like the articles. Keep exposing evil big brother corporations!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:51:25 +0000

They’re just gonna remove it??? You know i’m surprised MS isn’t unleashing their lawyers on sony, really surprised. Not because it’s spyware or a rootkit, but simply because it TAMPERS with windows. It alters the way windows does things.

So is MS giving every programmer out there in the world carte blanche to just do whatever they feel like with windows except create a competing OS? Tamper with it, break it, they apparently don’t give a damn!

Then again maybe once vista is out everyone will find their precious drm systems fall flat on their arses and they’re suddenly forbidden to create their own new ones having instead to rely solely on the drm included with vista, which they’d probly have to pay for acess too. That sounds more like MS at work.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 01:46:31 +0000

They did, it was called COM+

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Not a COWARD, just cant be arsed to register. Who know where my details might end up………

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:54:55 +0000

The spyware that Sony installs on the computers of music fans does not even seem to be correct in terms of copyright law.
It turns out that the rootkit contains pieces of code that are identical to LAME, an open source mp3-encoder, and thereby breach the license.

http://dewinter.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=215.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:27:54 +0000

I think its good that Sony’s crap goes onto spyware lists… but…

The fact that Microsoft is putting it there… is kind of silly…

Microsoft is in direct competition with Sony in the console wars… and I’m betting they will go out of their way to give the public every kind of bad image of Sony… Dont support either, go to Nintendo! XD They Rule!

BTW, if Microsoft would have thought about this first… they would be the ones everyone is so mad at! XD An evil DRM like this, or EULA, is just like things MS has done in the past… And they’ll probably install a backdoor on you someday too! XD