Comments on: Sony BMG Pulls Rootkit - Sony BMG Statement on Pulling Rootkit

By: Mic

Mic — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:33:32 +0000

No recall on the Cd’s, eh? I hope the law suite lawyers takes them to the cleaners. But we all know that they will get the government to step in and either put pressure or even change the laws to allow them to continue hacking the consumer. After all, can anyone tell me one politician that isn’t receiving payments under the table?

By: David B

David B — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:03:03 +0000

So does Sony’s about turn mean that I can take my “defective” - rootkit included - Sony CDs back to the store and get “non-defective” - no rootkit included - replacements free of charge ?

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:58:50 +0000

Sony is toast.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:09:19 +0000

Please note that they never state they will refrain from implimenting policies that will stop installing unknown patches to your system. They only garantee consumers will find it easy to use their product, and to meet their security issues not your’s. Their polices are better understood by what they leave out with their careful wording.

“We also intend to re-examine all aspects of our content protection initiative to be sure that it continues to meet our goals of security and ease of consumer use.”