Wired News: Boycott Sony
I like Sony. I should after buying a PSP on launch day and planning on buying a second one soon, along with owning a PS2 and 2 PS1s, and planning on buying a PS3 whenever they launch. But, Sony did wrong in putting some nasty code on CD's, effectively opening PC's to attack and putting some spyware on Macs, which I think has also been mentioned. (Check, googles, yep they did install kernel extensions, by a different company, read article from Gizmodo, Sony Mac Rootkit,which makes it an equal oppotunity offender)
Wired is calling for a boycott of Sony. Does that include SCEA. or is it the Sony music label? Decisions, decisions. I don't like ANY company that installs crap on my computer be it Microsoft or Sony or hell even Apple. I don't like companies telling me what I can or can not do with the things I buy, emphasis on buy. I don't like licensing my software and I doubt I'll be buying any of Sony's CD's for a while.
The major media companues treat ordinary consumers like criminals whenever they buy digital media, be it games, CD's or movies. If Cd's were priced better and not loaded with crap like Sony pulled, maybe it just might make piracy less viable. Some people in this world can't afford to buy a new $15 CD just for a song they like or if they want to try an new group.
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I second the motion. I don’t use a stereo. I buy CDs and immediately put them on my computer. Let me emphasize that I BUY them, making them mine.
I have one SONY CD with the anti-consumer crap on it. I thought I had successfully copied it to my computer and had listened to it countless times, but suddenly, last week, it started asking me for licenses. I can’t even listen to the thing in my computer anymore without acquiring licenses, which requires actually putting the CD into the computer. I am disgusted with this and from now on will illegally download the SONY CDs I cannot live without. Screw them.