My SONY ™ Story
p2pnet.net News View:- Last year, SONY visited the Rootkit DRM fiasco upon consumers of many of its CDs. This allowed various very serious and even lethal computer infections – and was very hard to get rid of.
The RIAA and CRIA (both of which count SONY as a major big four member) want Canadian anti-circumvention legislation modelled after American law to protect SONY’s right to continue to deploy DRM and prevent circumvention of said DRM. The legislation that is being sought and which rumour says we will likely soon see may actually make it illegal to circumvent such affliction in the future. Technically, that is the case now in the USA. Just because nobody has been yet sued yet, never say “never”. The RIAA is suing dead grandmothers for copyright infringement.
This year, certain SONY laptop lithium batteries cause certain Dell laptops (that haven’t succumbed to the Rootkit infection) to engage in spontaneous computer combustion.
Hopefully, this is just a catastrophic corporate coincidence. Whatever the reason, it’s bound to "heat up" the market. Hopefully, SONY (and the RIAA and CRIA) won’t be seeking legislation to prevent consumers and firefighters from extinguishing computer fires caused by systems with “flaming”, "blazing" or “incendiary” performance. 
These two innovative developments – Rootkit + Blazing Batteries – have certainly generated a lot of free publicity for SONY. This makes it nothing if not ironic that that SONY has applied to register the trade-mark LIKE NO OTHER for wares and services that include, you guessed it, compact discs and batteries.
No, I’m not making this up. See Canadian TM application #1232337
Should SONY and its trade associations, RIAA/CRIA, be determining the future of Canadian copyright law?
CAVEAT EMPTOR.
CAVEAT LEGISLATOR.
Howard Knopf – Excess Copyright
[Knopf is an Ottawa-based copyright lawyer who's been lead counsel on legal challenges both at the Copyright Board and in the Courts against the excesses of the music industry establishment. He's regularly quoted in the mainstream media and acted against CRIA in the file sharing litigation, and continues to act against the CPCC, in which CRIA is still a major stakeholder, on the levy front.]
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August 16th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Ok, My computer is a mess now, seems I went ahead and deleted the DRM when it was just a folder! Now, it seems to me that Sony deliberately put in faulty batteries because they want absolute control of the internet, hence the fight for net neutrality. It all gets very clear now that Microsoft and Comcast and the like want control over the internet that was free as it was first started. Power hungry mongers must not be allowed to continue and I, personally, will endorse legislation that will vote for net neutrality, DRM, Trusted Computer Software, and anything like that.
You see, after my computer broke down entirely, I got back to a real cofiguration problem. And don’t know what to do about it. You can bet, though, when I can afford my next computer, it will have Linux – and BTW Microsoft is going after Linux now!
Evil people is all I can say!
Bev
August 16th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Now a root kit in the battery too? Does the batteries also monitor downloading and report it to Sony before it explode?
August 17th, 2006 at 12:20 am
Sony, Sony, Sony. Your name isn’t mud, it’s shit.
August 23rd, 2006 at 3:57 am
Could you please delete this first comment, I messed up. This is what I meant to say: I can see it now… in the future if you violate the copyright law, i.e. getting a song off of a peer-to-peer network, your computer will pop up a message saying “you have violated current copyright laws. This computer will self-destruct in 30 seconds.” Once the firemen come to put out the fire, they would ask you what law
you’ve violated and call the police to arrest you.