Sony stock is at 25% of former value of five years ago. See here

http://www.marketcenter.com/stocks/adv_chart.action?chartUi.studies=&sym=SNE&chartUi.bartype=BAR&chartUi.period=M&chartUi.minutes=&x=12&y=6&chartUi.size=620×300&chartUi.bardensity=LOW&chartUi.overlay=

If the math is correct, the value of Sony has dropped by over $100 billion American dollars ($100,000,000,000). Thas a lot of cash to loose.

Courtney Love, in her ways, has said that record companies are just con artists. Their time has come! The investors get what they deserve for putting their money on a company that is part of the RIAA cartel.

Ah! The sweet smell of justice!

She who e-mailed to you is right. Mainstream mass media has not reported sony’s scandal. But many heavy PC user including 2-Channel BBS user had knwon sony’s rootkit. And 2-Channel uers angry with mass media about they had not reported this scandal. I don’t know why mass media has not reoprted it.

Here are websites about sony’s malware scandal:
http://teary7mmmg.seesaa.net/
http://plasticdreams.tm.land.to/sonyrootkit/
top one is japanese translations, bottom one is news link page.

And Amazon UK are still selling XCP infected titles with no sign of any refund or return process.

And you can still buy Mediamax infected titles here with no sign of an upgrade or uninstall process.

The DNS search shows that this is a world problem not just a USA problem. It’s great that the EFF are going after them and making this public, but it’s also a shame the EFF and others can’t make it more global in scope.

‘2 channel’ is famous in Japan for giving birth to a very successful book/movie “Densha otoko” (train man), where a nerd saves a beautiful woman from molestation on a train, and the nerd eventually starts dating the woman he saved. It’s supposed to be from a true story.

Anyways, ‘2 channel’ is a really good way to get things out into the open because the bbs isn’t owned by any major companies, thus the wide range of subjects and opinions. Although the media itself doesn’t think too highly of ‘2 channel’, there have been several stories that have been highly publicized, only after they were widely discussed on the bbs. There was one not too long ago about one of the record companies copying an ascii character cat for a song video.

tensaibaka

Payola is a two way street. Media is paid to help Sony and to be silent about Sony, and if not, payola stops.