In case you haven't heard, Sony released a CD that has a rootkit on it. Basically a rootkit is a virus that attempts to mask itself from standard means of detection. It can basically hide from antivirus and malware. It is a truly insidious tactic.
Now there is news that Sony may have lead a price-fixing scheme to charge online retailers more than brick-and-mortar stores. Granted, a few other companies are named and this is only a complaint and not a conviction, but even so Sony isn't making a very good name for itself lately.
I love Sony products. But I don't like companies that do nefarious things. I will have to think long and hard the next time I am going to make a major electronics purchase. Treating your customers like criminals and trying to ensure they can't get a good deal is pretty much a recipe for losing any sort of customer loyalty it took years to cultivate.
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Not only that, but the company Sony paid to make the rootkit used LPGL code in violation of the license.
And it's not just one CD. Many. There are a number of sites which identify infected CDs, but Sony will not disclose the full list (as far as I've heard, at least).
So, they use price-fixing to sell CDs infected with a rootkit DRM made of stolen code. If corporations were held accountable like real people this would be multiple felonies and a nice chunk of time in jail.
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