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Story: Sony settles class action lawsuit over DRM

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Jon wrote:
"No one has actually answered the question, do any of the people slagging of Sony actually buy ANY music, (or software) or are they just the normal linux using microsoft/intel hating criminals that hang around this board

Difference between someone who illegally downloads music and someone who walks into a shop and shoplifts =ZERO"

Yes, I buy music. I have a large collection of CDs I've purchased, and MP3 tracks from old vinyl (60's era EMI stuff you can't buy in ANY form, never mind just CDs). I run WIndows XP on my networked computers. The desktop box is a dual-boot with Linux on the other partiion, because there's things Linux can do that XP can't and vice-versa. For similar reasons I have an iBook running OS X 10.3 - because there's things Mac software can do that Windows and Linux can't.

And none of this is really relevant to the issue at hand. You appear to support Sony's right to clandestinely install software which can leave systems open to intrusion. So now that I've answered your question, how about you answer mine? Why do you think Sony's right to protect it's content should extend to putting my hardware and software at risk?

I await with interest what will likely be an extended silence.

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