top 10 reasons why it's bad to include a rootkit in your CD.Follow

becaye I have all the EQ and EQ2 disks, and after several deep level scans, they all came up clean.

i suppose better late then never:

MS finnaly gets into the frey and waits for the legal action to be taken FIRST before it does anything, but sadly most users will not have any kind of help from MS until December:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4434852.stm

one of the few true things MS has said in the past 10 years:



so now Sony is caught in a big lie and this leads more power to those behind the legal action to win and win big.

as much as i like to see MS get the shaft, i do not like pirating software. that is an other reason i like linux. it is FREE as in free beer. that also means i can take that $150 i would of spent on a new license from MS and put it towards hardware or towards my family.

Sony? Change?

I spent a large amount of time last semester doing a research project on the Stax Record Company and why it went bankrupt when it had been enjoying large amounts of sucess as an independent label with artists such as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, and in particular, Issac Hayes. There were theories circulating that because it was an integrated company in the south (Memphis, TN) at a time when segregation was the norm, certain events, such as the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, in Memphis, caused rifts between the artists that they couldn't overcome.

Anyway. After a long series of events, one of the owners decides he wants out, and the other owner needs the money to pay him off. In a moment of stupidity he looked to Sony/BMG for the money. An interesting sidenote in all of this is that certain people running sony's music division at the time had been thought of as even racist for their lack of presence in the African American music scene. Someone at the music division commisioned the Harvard Business school to find out how profitable it might be if they decided to go into the area of African American music. The Harvard Report said that it would be quite profitable for them. So, they do a business deal with Stax. They knew there was no way they could have Motown, and probably not even Atlantic. Stax was the way to go. And they didn't want a "deal" with Stax, they -wanted- Stax. Stax didn't understand this, and when Stax didn't cooperate with them, they systematically put them out of business. It is so odd when you read about it, it is almost like they are pissed off because Stax isn't cooperating with their grand scheme, so they just make them bankrupt because they can.

So, there is a story about the music industry, big business, and Sony. Interesting, anyway.

true, but installing anything onto someones computer without their permision, should be, against the law.

it is malware without a doubt hands down and should be treated the same way a virus is treated with the same legal ramifications to go along with that type of code.

well there are a few things that can be done legally about this.

1. if you own one of the CDs that has the rootkit and you run a MS OS at your home, then you can try to join the many class action suits against Sony Corp.

2. you can boycot any and all Sony Products. this is something that everyone is able to do.

3. you can write letters, not e-mails but real pen to paper or printed letters, to your congressional representative, state governor, and to the President of the USA. not that Bush will do much, but i can tell you from personal experiance that your local rep. and congressman WILL listen to a well written letter that is mailed of faxed to their office.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt?command=congdir

go there and enter your zip code to find your local rep.

4. send letter directly to Sony Corp. this is most likely a wiast of paper and or stamps, but you never know. if they get a few hundred thousand of these letter it might get someones attention, but again this is Sony we are talking about. the company that ignores the public and does what they want until they are caught or enough public speak out or threaten Sony corps. back pocket at that time they do something about it. more then not it is to little to late in most peoples eyes.

then again most people are ignorant and soon forget how horrid sony treats the customer and go back to buying their products and putting money back in the pockets of a company who cares nothing about consumer rights or needs.

for me it will be sending letters to my congressman complaining about the way that Sony is treating the customer and ask for law changes to make what sony did 100% against the law in the USA, not just on a state by state setting. not much more i can do.

*grins*

yes i have been on a sony boycot for about a 2 years now. long history with multiple divisions of sony corp not just their music industry. as for buying CDs, i do not mind, but that last CD i bought was metalicas S&M, but i knew exactly what i was getting with that. for the most part i pay my $0.99 for mp3 i want and im happy with that.

Sony finnally admits to over 50 titles with thier virus on the CD.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4445550.stm

now more then 500,000 EU could be at risk of major security problems thanks to Sony's uninstaller just by browsing the web.

thank you sony for not letting me down in your continued lies and betral of the public trust.

yup, that is very well written. there is a new writeup today on the BBC in the tech section and is an other good read.

500,000 networks can mean over 2,000,000 computers infected with this virus installed by Sony. also a large portion of US Military networks seem to also be infected. WTG Sony create a security problem with the Military will get you nothing but more trouble then you already are in.

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