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Texas Sues Sony Over Alleged CD Spyware
KWTX ^
| November 21, 2005
| DWTX News
Posted on 11/21/2005 9:38:17 AM PST by TommyDale
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Everybody climb on board for the roller coaster ride with Sony/BMG!
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:38:19 AM PST
by
TommyDale
To: TommyDale
And in Texas, remember, it's death penalty!
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:39:00 AM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: TommyDale
Yeeee Hawwww!
Burn Sony! Burn!
To: TommyDale
If they apply the logic of software making computers vulnerable to viruses, Microsoft and many others will be susceptible to lawsuits. IMO.
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:41:19 AM PST
by
knittnmom
(...surrounded by reality)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:41:52 AM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
To: TommyDale
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:41:55 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:42:48 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: 80 Square Miles
If they apply the logic of software making computers vulnerable to viruses, Microsoft and many others will be susceptible to lawsuits. IMO.
Only if they install "hidden spyware," as that term is likely to be defined in the Texas statute, on computers.
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:45:23 AM PST
by
BikerNYC
(Modernman should not have been banned.)
To: TommyDale
People who deliberately infect peoples computers with spyware should be dragged outside and publicly horsewhipped.
Check that, I say make it a hanging offense.
L
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:45:44 AM PST
by
Lurker
(Tagline under construction. Watch for falling quips.)
To: TommyDale
subject it to viruses The sony spyware doesn't do that. The deinstallation program might to some extent. But other than the file cloaking, the functions of the program (spying, etc) are similar to many other media programs.
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:47:38 AM PST
by
palmer
(Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
To: TommyDale
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:48:09 AM PST
by
mysterio
To: TommyDale
Sony's also into online gaming--
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:52:17 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
(.)
To: 80 Square Miles
I will be the first to point out that software makers have a responsability to make a reasonabally secure and well engineered product but its not a legal responsability. The reason Sony is in trouble is not because their sftware was insecure its because the whole purpose was to root your system...
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posted on
11/21/2005 9:53:46 AM PST
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: TommyDale
AP
July 27, 2005
ALBANY, New York - Recording industry titan Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed Monday to pay $10 million and stop bribing radio stations to feature its artists in what a state official called a more sophisticated generation of the payola scandals of decades ago.
Sony. More balony.
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posted on
11/21/2005 10:00:13 AM PST
by
polymuser
(I wish the Republicans had a majority in Congress.)
To: 80 Square Miles
If they apply the logic of software making computers vulnerable to viruses, Microsoft and many others will be susceptible to lawsuits. IMO. There's a difference between doing a poor job of security (Microsoft) and deliberately subverting security in order to hide malware (Sony).
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posted on
11/21/2005 10:01:46 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: palmer
The sony spyware doesn't do that. The deinstallation program might to some extent. But other than the file cloaking, the functions of the program (spying, etc) are similar to many other media programs. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Sony's cloaking function created a safe haven for any type of virus, trojan, etc to hide from security software.
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posted on
11/21/2005 10:04:23 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: ShadowAce
Even the cartoon Fox Trot is talking about Sony's stupid move!
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
To: TommyDale
Yesss! < pumps fist in air >
Elliot Spitzer voted for indictment before he voted against it, er, I mean, he's too busy negotaiting with companies to restrict the rights of the individual to take time to prosecute companies that work against customers on their own initiative.
Texas rocks; New York sucks rocks.
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posted on
11/21/2005 10:17:38 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
To: steve-b
"Sony's cloaking function created a safe haven for any type of virus, trojan, etc to hide from security software."
Why does soney think they can download files on our computers without our permission, which allow others to host more files on our computer e.g file shareing with hackers, but we are not allowed to download files on our computer without their permission and share them with honest people? What a bunch of hypocrites!
They need to be sued using the same laws that they have been using on grandmothers and teenagers whom have also have unknowingly downloaded files and and unknowingly shared them.
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posted on
11/21/2005 10:17:51 AM PST
by
seastay
To: 80 Square Miles
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posted on
11/21/2005 10:22:08 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Hindsight is 20/20, or in the case of Democrats, totally blind)
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