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Story: Sony plans patch after DRM rootkit row
Posted by: ozz scott (Thursday 3 November 2005, 6:04 PM)
Sony have just shot themselves in the foot!
I run a small network and have imposed a system wide ban on Sony products as they can no longer be considered as a trusted source. I have sold off the Sony Minidisc units and reformatted all machines that had Sony SonicStage software on them opting for other safer alternatives, after all if they are hiding DRM rootkit software on audio CDs we can hardly trust their software.
Have they missed the simple fact that a cheap stand alone CD or DVD player can be connected to any PC with audio in and be very easily used to re-recorded the audio? or is this far too obvious? They have gone too far and simply will not stop the pirates by illegally modifying all Windows based machines, it has lost consumers trust in them and will lose them a lot of sales.
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Story: Sony plans patch after DRM rootkit row
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"We want to make sure we allay any unnecessary con... Paul Williams -
So is everything hidden via $sys$ or is there... Anonymous -
After this, I will no longer buy ANYTHING with the... Anonymous
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Sony can forget about me ever knowingly buying a p... Anonymous
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They got caught sneaking this in, who knows w... No Trust in Sony
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Sony have just shot themselves in the foot!
I run... ozz scott -
Pretty products, pretty crap business ethics. Anonymous
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I thought unauthorised modification of a comp... Steve B
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Sony's offer to let you download a patch to their... Anonymous
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I actually had this problem with my computer.. act... Anonymous
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I've got the non-functioning CD problem. I'v... Al Fleagle
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It is hard to understand how Sony can manufacture... Anonymous
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One must ponder if it is not time to force First... pgn
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I read the whole blog. I will never buy sony... Anonymous
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I will not buy any thing with sony name on it Bob Brown
