A Sony BMG statement Tuesday said the company would pull unsold CDs with the software from store shelves and let consumers exchange already purchased ones.How magnanimous of them. /sarcasm
Are they also going to compensate people whos' PCs have been hosed by their little rootkit spyware?
1 posted on
11/16/2005 9:25:16 AM PST by
holymoly
To: holymoly
Easy solution: Don't buy anything Sony. You can't trust it.
2 posted on
11/16/2005 9:32:54 AM PST by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azadi)
To: holymoly
This little escapade is probably going to end up costing them at least a billion dollars in lawsuits and bad will. I can understand how such a stupid ploy could have slipped under the CEO's radar, but I can't understand how they could have been so stupid as to leave it hanging out there this long.
I posted the story here first, after it was posted at BetaNews.
Several Antivirus programs have added stuff that will uncover the Sony rootkit, but they have been slow to issue removal tools, probably because of fear that Sony might sue them for removing copy-protection, which is illegal.
Sophos was the first to issue a tool to detect and remove the Rootkit. Considering what has been happening, I would take a chance with their tool rather than anything Sony puts out, because so far all their solutions have only made things worse.
The Sophos rootkit detection and removal tool is at:
http://www.sophos.com/support/disinfection/rkprf.html
It will tell you if you have the rootkit on your computer, and several usually reliable sources have recommended it. I haven't tried it myself, since I don't have the Sony virus.
3 posted on
11/16/2005 9:35:23 AM PST by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
4 posted on
11/16/2005 9:36:08 AM PST by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: holymoly
Ooooh, this is gonna leave a mark...
5 posted on
11/16/2005 9:36:08 AM PST by
polymuser
(")
To: holymoly
They'll compensate them, all right. After the class action lawsuit which in this case is warranted. If they want to fight the cassette tape over and over again fine, but it's going to cost them.
6 posted on
11/16/2005 9:36:44 AM PST by
mysterio
To: Nightshift
7 posted on
11/16/2005 9:40:31 AM PST by
tutstar
(OurFlorida.true.ws)
To: holymoly
"The "XCP" copy-protection program was included on at least 20 CDs, including releases by Van Zant, The Bad Plus, Neil Diamond and Celine Dion. Sony BMG said 4.7 million were shipped, with 2.1 million sold."It disturbs me that 2.1 million CDs can be sold that include Neil Diamond and Celine Dion.
To: holymoly
They will, 5 years down the line and millions of lawyers' fees later.
To: holymoly
15 posted on
11/16/2005 10:28:35 AM PST by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: holymoly
"We share the concerns of consumers regarding discs with XCP content-protected software," Tuesday's statement said. If that were true, then why did they release it in the first place?
20 posted on
11/16/2005 10:50:35 AM PST by
Born Conservative
("Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." -Donald Rumsfeld)
To: holymoly
21 posted on
11/16/2005 10:51:13 AM PST by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: holymoly
23 posted on
11/16/2005 11:03:10 AM PST by
Revolting cat!
("in the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: JenB
Yet another reason I prefer macs ping
25 posted on
11/16/2005 11:05:52 AM PST by
TalonDJ
To: holymoly
When the discs were put into a PC -- a necessary step for transferring music to iPods and other portable music players -- the CD automatically installed a program that restricted how many times the discs' tracks could be copied, and made it extremely inconvenient to transfer songs into the format used by iPods. That antipiracy software, which works only on PCs running Windows, came with a cloaking feature that allowed it to hide files on users' computers. Security researchers classified the program as "spyware," saying it secretly transmits details about what music the PC is playing. Manual attempts to remove the software can disable the PC's CD drive.
I'd be suing the living hell of them for this.
28 posted on
11/16/2005 11:09:23 AM PST by
Centurion2000
((Aubrey, Tx) --- America, we get the best government corporations can buy.)
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