More on the Sony rootkit outrage

[mdlbear]

Brian Krebs. (From DocBug)

A comment on Krebs' blog post contains a link to Sony Music's feedback form: <www.sonymusic.com/about/feedback.cgi>; so I used it:

I was all set to buy another pair of Sony's excellent MDR 7509 professional headphones. Now that I've learned that Sony CDs install a Windows rootkit when you attempt to play them, I've decided to look for an alternative, from a company that does not illegally install unwanted software on its customers' computers.

And you can forget about selling me music. As an independent singer-songwriter who believes in fair use and the power of word-of-mouth advertising, I will continue to buy my CDs from my fellow musicians, and not from soulless, evil companies like Sony.

Comments

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Are we sure this story is correct? Sony's received a lot of bad press on it and I'd hate for it to turn out to be another version of the satanic record company.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

F-Secure wrote about it yesterday:

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-112005.html#00000691