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Story: Sony: Why care about rootkits?

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Thomas Hesse doesn't know what customer trust in a brand is, so why should he care about it.

How can I ever trust another Sony owned label to not try installing some sort of garbage on my pc?

How can I trust that it will play in my car stereo system and not simply display ERROR instead?

Worse yet, how can I trust that said CD will not as has happened, not eject from my car stereo and leave me with no option but to take it to the dealership in the hopes they can get it to manually eject somehow?

In this great DRM game, we will eventually have each label installing some sort of CD Filter driver, the end result of which, we cannot get certain, or all CDs to operate because of the filter driver equivalent of Windows DLL Hell. My take on it? Buy from Napster, or Itunes if you want to play music on your home computer. Use independent labels, that's where the innovation is occuring in the music world anyway. And listen to online radio until they get stupid and outlaw it.

JUST SIMPLY QUIT PLAYING CDs IN YOUR COMPUTER AND YOUR CAR STEREO and as your need to buy them goes away from DRM using manufacturers, quit buying DRM CDs.

BTW, playing CDs has been banned at work as we cannot expend any time and effort troubleshooting operating system damage due to these stupid things. Also, we don't need the internet traffic and security risk for the phone home stuff. THANKS SONY!

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