Sony sales site hacked
p2p news / p2pnet: Could it get any worse for Sony DRM? (Ooops. Sorry. Sony BMG.) It certainly could.
Thanks to its attempt to sneak a DRM item onto punters’ machines via Sony BMG music CDs, it’s now all downhill for the company, a paid-up member of the music and movies cartels.
You could almost feel sorry for it. Why? Because its troubles are due to the hired help- ie, that it decided to use the First 4 Internet XCP DRM spyware kit.
In other words, it believed snake-oil could actually work.
Now, “Pity if you will poor old Sony,” says The Register.
“First they get themselves into all sorts of trouble with the rootkit DRM CDs fiasco, then incur the wrath of the e-tailing community by ramping up wholesale kit prices for online stores, then, well, how can it get any worse?”
It could, and did.
Yesterday, someone hacked the Sony Style site and typing ‘USB’ into the search field pulled up the images on the left.
Stay tuned. The fat lady still hasn’t sung.
(Thanks, Larsson ; )
See:-
The Register – Sony in USB lead porn punt shocker, November 17, 2005
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local political representatives. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance.
November 17th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
Giving Sony the benefit of the doubt, one may forgive Sony’s transgression in this DRM fiasco. Everyone makes mistakes, yes?
However, as many prosecutors, judges, police, and many others of that persuasion will tell you, criminals tend to have a pattern of behaviour. Once or maybe even twice can be attributed to a mistake, more usually means that that person is a criminal. Why should mega multinational corporations be treated differently? They shouldn’t, and they would not be (in the U.S.A.) if the Constitution was obeyed by governemnt officials. Sony has shown quite a distinct pattern as far as criminal behavior is concerned.
1. They have been caught red-handed in a payolla scheme in which they bribed radio stations to play their “music.”
2. They have been caught red-handed having someone pose as a movie critic giving rave reviews of one of their movies.
3. Now, they have been caught red-handed in installing secretive software in peoples’ computer as well as opening up these computers to other malicious software.
As far as I’m concerned, Sony is a repeat offender, and since it is a corporation and not a person who would be thrown in jail for life under some (unconstitutional) “three strikes” law, the following should be its punishment:
1. Sony should have its charter revoked.
2. All Sony assets should be seized and used to pay back its victims and any outstanding debt.
3. The remaining assets should be placed in employee pension funds.
4. The C.E.O. and board of directors for this corporation should forfeit all future pay and benefits.
Doing these things will serve as an examples to other corporations that rampant lawbreaking by even a mega corporation has consequences.
November 17th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
“…these things will serve as an examples to other corporations that rampant lawbreaking by even a mega corporation has consequences.”
Bob Dylan said it best.
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you a king
$ony made more filthy lucre breaking the law even when you factor in the cost of getting caught than they would have had they operated within the bounds of the law. That’s how “mega” corporations work. If the penalty is less than the profit, why not? I’m not disagreeing with you. I’d like to see some justice done too. I just think Sony will walk away with minor short term losses and some temporary bad publicty. The pleebs will forget. Soon.
P.S. I don’t know about elsewhere, but with Karl Rove & his cronys dictating US federal policy the government here sure as hell won’t do anything meaningful to punish $ony.
November 17th, 2005 at 6:42 pm
That is exactly what I was talking about. I know $ony will not be punished for their misdeeds. I know that they will only receive a relatively small fine which is considered the cost of doing business. That is why I believe that the only appropriate penalty is disolving the company. Since you stated that you live in the Police States of America, I would like to point out that the likes of Sony is what is corrupting the minds of Americans. Yes, it is a Japanes company, and $ony cannot be completely dissolved, but the part of it that is in America can be dissolved. This is what needs to be done.
November 17th, 2005 at 11:19 pm
Remember what happened the last time the Germans and the Japanese got together? 70 million died. (Approx)** And we drop 2 bombs on Japan and kill approx 250,000 end the war in 3 days and we’re the bad guys. Right.
**http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm
November 18th, 2005 at 3:11 am
I should hope that there’s no place here for that sort of vile racism such as advocating genocide.
November 18th, 2005 at 8:24 am
If ours justices and governements does not work we have to do the job ourselves if you know what I mean.
November 19th, 2005 at 12:40 am
Nobody here mentioned race besides you. The German government was responsible for murdering 6 million of my people, about 15 million Russians, and many more mentally itt, retarded, homosexuals, and others who did not fit the Nazi concept of “worthy of life.” The Japanese empire also murdered millions of Chinese, Phillipeano’s, U.S. servicemen, and civilian in other nations. The Japanese empire also worked and starved millions almost to death. As much as I hate what is now going on in the P.S.A., I have to call you on this accusation. If told by their emporor at the time, those Japanese who died in the nuclear explosion would have killed every American they could of. That is the danger of governments. People generally do what they are told to do by their government. Who knows what we as Americans will do if we are brainwashed, coerced, or otherwise motivated by the P.S.A. government. Government is like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master.
November 19th, 2005 at 3:21 am
At least the USA is trying to take over the world in a way that may actualy work. =D
November 19th, 2005 at 8:37 am
I’m sorry, I dont have anything smart to say here – just HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Freaking suiting! er, I mean, shame on the vile hackers.. lol
_-Jile-_