No end to Sony's privacy rights violations

[boruvka]

As it turns out, the Rootkit-DRM-Solution Sony used on some Audio CDs sold in the United States of America is not the only infringement on legal buyers' rights.

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The software audio player provided with the CDs (being the only means by which the audio CDs are playable in PC CD-drives) is "calling home"... so not only is there seemingly no limit as to a major record company's insolence as to what concerns infringing on the rights of their products' buyers - this gratefully backfired
on Sony BMG as it is a true PR disaster by now.

Read what Mark from Sysinternals found out yet about Sony's nightmare audio CDs. (http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/more-on-sony-dangerous-decloaking.html)

[grazzhoppa]

1 blog entry from someone who knew what he was doing has started a snow ball rolling...

Sony's facing (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/sony_sued_for_rootkit/) 2 class action lawsuits in the USA and 1 possible one from the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Italy.

[wazzledoozle]

And I just heard that Sony is looking to make the PS3 game discs have a barcode on them, that the console reads, then erases so you can only play the game on that playstation.
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000420067137/

Sony is really on a DRM spree right now..

[boruvka]

It goes on and on...
http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/

for more information about the spread of that into the Mac world, read this (if fluent in german):
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/66044

and note the press release that Sony BMG plans not to pubslih further titles with tha incriminated DRM malware on it:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/66074
while saying that that won't apply to Apple systems (where they pose similar dangers).