[T-Bird45]

Just read about this in USA Today during lunch and remembered my wife made a copy of the new Neil Diamond CD last night. Thanks for posting this so I can spend time this weekend cleaning the computer.

And in the future, Sony can kiss my rosy red rectum...

[dickmc]

I can not believe any corporation can be this stupid. If they tried to to loose customers, get sued, get bad PR before the prime gift buying season, etc ... a better job could not have been done. According to the net:

1. Misleading EULA

2. Some of the software is actually installed before the EULA appears

3. A DRM that cloaks itself while opening your computer to a virus

4. A removal tool that simply uncloaks the DRM but does not remove it

5. A DRM company that was supposedly spun off from Sony to try to avoid legal liability

6. A DRM that phones home to Sony telling them what CD you are playing

7. One attack virus is already out there exploiting the vulnerability that their DRM causes

8. A DRM so ineffective that it won't even load or install on a MAC

These idiots deserve every thing that they get. They have done everything that any PR person would tell them not to do. A class action suit is already filed in California! Looks like one is also likely in England.


BTW: The DRM is apparently installed by the Autorun function (which many people disable anyway) and the wav files are still there for use. Enough said about that.

Sony apparently owns a whole slew of record companies, like Columbia, RCA, etc., so you may be able to catch this from others also.