Can anyone explain to me why it is that punk kid programmers who write software like this face probable jail time, but when Sony corporation does exactly the same thing, they're just "protecting their copyright"?
How is a trojan horse opening up security holes from Sony any different from a trojan horse from the computer nerd down the street?
Why isn't Sony facing criminal prosecution under the various anti-digital terrorism acts?
Because some animals are more equal than others. RIAA and MPAA own several senators.
This rootkit is pretty darned sneaky. Very few will ever even know they have it. I hope sysinternals can come up with an automated check for it. Perhaps then a class-action might be possible. This is something I'd really like to see. These multinational megacorps need to understand the limits of our forbearance.
Probably the biggest reason this won't go anywhere is because no newspaper or network is going to take the advertizing hit that would come from pushing this story hard. Money is power.
Hadn't you heard, it's been proven incontrovertibly that large political donors are never terrorists. The are simply incapable of being.