Just when Sony is starting to get a bit of positive press, they go about and destroy it with a single move of utter evilness.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/12/1256258
"Sony BMG Music Entertainment is suing the company that developed anti-piracy software for its CDs, claiming the technology was defective and cost the record company millions of dollars to settle consumer complaints and government investigations. The software in question is the MediaMax CD protection system, widely derided as a rootkit. Sony BMG is seeking to recover some $12 million in damages from the Phoenix-based technology company, according to court papers filed July 3."
Of course, just because Sony contracted them to write illegal rootkit software it doesn't mean they can pass the blame onto the company who only did what Sony asked them to do. I suppose it was too much to ask for Sony to go an entire year without reminding us that it's run by complete arseholes.
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