Sony pulls spyware
Sony announced today that it's pulling their controversial copy protected CDS from the market temporarily. They had released 20 or so titles that had root kit software on it, so when run on PCs, they could install a small program that would stop the music from being ripped and copied onto an ipod and control the number of copies made of the music. Unfortunately they opened a nice big back door for anyone else that could slip in a program named the same and get unrestricted access to the schmuck, sorry--customer's computer.
What would we do if Sony was a small neighborhood store instead of a big multi-national? I wonder. The kinder souls amongst us would boycott them, the more aggressive would probably introduce the store windows to their two good friends, Mr. Brick and Mr. Bat.
(sigh) I miss small towns.
Posted on November 11, 2005
