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Story: Sony's malware malaise

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Posted by: Arthur B. (Monday 7 November 2005, 11:10 PM)

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It sounds to me that it's far more easier to shoot somebody dead legally in the USA then to remove unintentionally installed malware from your own property (your computer).

Say, isn't a tresspasser an "unintentionally installed malware in your own property"?

Also take into account the number of Americans that can fully understand the legal text that comes with most software (which they already agreed to before opening the package it came in) versus the number of Americans that can understand warning signs like: "Tresspassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again." under poor light conditions, in the midst of night, half drunk, in poor physical condition and while fleeing from mobsters trying to knife someone for a dollar and a half.

"I shoot you" has become "I sue you". Nothing much changed in over 200 years of "civilization". It's still about reuning somebody elses day.

The land of the free (to be haunted).

Hip, hip, hooray.

Pardon the sarcasm.

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