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zarx said:
Edgeoflife said:

I'd laugh if Sony put it up there with a virus that bricks ps3 of anyone who tries to run it 


yea all the Sony haters would laugh 2 when somy hass to pay out, creating viruses is ilegal and if traked back to Sony (which hakers would) then the law suites would begin, it would be like the rootkits all over again.

This is actually true. Several years ago, Sony music labels had CDs that had to 'install' software onto your computer just so you could rip the CD's music onto your hard drives. Lots of virus scanning software automatically flagged the CD "installation" as malicious. Sony was confronted on this and DID have to pay a fine for doing this with their music CDs. I own one of those music CDs and it's a Switchfoot CD (Nothing Is Sound).

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2005-11-17-sony-rootkit_x.htm