No Xmas for Sony protest badge
Posted by Doug Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:23:24 GMT
From Boing Boing:
Gisela sez, “I got tired of waiting for someone else to start the ‘No Xmas for Sony’ thing, so I opted to do it myself. There is an image that I have taken up using in my sig files around the Internet, linking it to Mark Russinovich’s blog on the Sony rootkit debacle. So far, in less than 1 hour of it being live, it convinced someone not to buy a Vaio, so I am quite pleased with it.”
Previous installments of the Sony Rootkit Roundup: Part I, Part II, Part III
In spite of a warning from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (www.us-cert.gov), some national retailers continue to sell music CDs containing the Sony ‘rootkit’ software.
Since Thanksgiving day I have seen ‘rootkit’ CDs available for sale at KMart, Walmart, FYE, and Circuit City. The Sony website (www.sonybmg.com) does not use the word ‘recall’. Nor has Sony ordered retailers to return these CDs. What Sony offers is an ‘exchange’ whereby the customer can swap ‘rootkit’ CDs with CDs of the same title but without the XCP software. There is nothing to prevent Sony fom giving these customers CDs with the Sunncomm copy protection software.
It seems that Sony is more interested in its profits than the well-being of its customers. There is more on my blog EatingTheApple.blogspot.com