Fuck Sony
I’m sorry I didn’t get to blog about this earlier.
I’ve been following the Sony rootkit story since it came out on the great Sysinternals website. And, finally, after dodging the issue and trying to pretend like it had done nothing wrong, Sony has caved and is doing a recall.
Fuck that. I hope the class action lawsuit suceeds. Normally I’m not a very litigious person and I, in fact, hate it that people can be sued because other people don’t have any common sense… but this is reckless endangerment. Sony is selling CDs that actively work to hide malware from you. Viruses have already come out utilizing this technology. Godammit, is this the future of DRM?
I think it could be. I think we’ll see more and more draconian tactics being used in the interests of “protecting the artists” and “fostering innovation.” Innovation isn’t fostered by maliciously tampering with people’s property and then attempting to hide the damage from them. Artists aren’t well-served by angry, angry fans returning droves of CDs because the CDs destabilize the most prevalent operating system on the planet.
Wake up. It’s only going to get worse.