rootkit
For those of you unfamiliar with the rootkit fiasco, the latest SONY audio CD's have come with software that secretly installs a phone home program on your computer. Not only does the program constantly call the mother ship, but it contains major security holes that allow virus writers to more easily infect your computer. This helps to further my hatred of all things Sony.
But what does the RIAA have to say about all this?
"In a press conference held on Nov 18 Cary Sherman, the president of the RIAA, stated in reference to Sony BMG's "rootkit" software that "there is nothing unusual about technology being used to protect intellectual property." According to Sherman, the problem with Sony BMG's XCP DRM software was simply that "the technology they used contained a security vulnerability of which they were unaware". He goes on to praise Sony's "responsible" attitude in handling the problem, saying "how many times that software applications created the same problem? Lots. I wonder whether they've taken as aggressive steps as SonyBMG has when those vulnerabilities were discovered, or did they just post a patch on the Internet?"
The other interesting thing about the rootkit software is that it contains copyrighted code that was used without permission.
In the quote above, the president of the RIAA says there is nothing wrong with that. That's an interesting statement given the RIAA's mob-like enforcement of copyright law. I guess it's only bad when its THEIR copyright that is being infringed. Of all the hypocritical things to do.
Well, I'm off to copy some CD's, this time with the cartel's blessing. Copyrght infringement is OKAY according to Cary Sherman.
Sony has been on my bad list
Sony has been on my bad list for a while. They tend to like to go the other way on everything. Sort of like France.
Europe: "All of europe this is what we're doing!"
France: "Well... I'm not gonna."
Sony CD players are a joke too, they will play sony CD's perfectly, but if there is any blemish or sometimes even if there is not on another manufactures disk it will have problems. This would have been avoided had Sony, like every other manufacture, had adopted the same Compact Disk standards that EVERY other company did. And that is just Sony. I'm tired of the attempts to stop copyright infringement, there is always going to be somebody smarter than the labels and their crackpot team of sceintists who I guarantee download music, when they are at home. Anyway this is your blog, and I'm going to stop right now. I or someone needs to work on a bill to protect the rights of the consumers. There are way too many taking them away.
So now the Attorney General
So now the Attorney General of Texas is suing Sony BMG for up to $100,000 per violation. I guess that just continues the vicious cycle the RIAA started when they began suing teenagers for pirating music. At what point will everyone give up and realize that being a millionaire musician is pretty freakin good and you don't have to be a multi multi millionaire musician. One other thought, wasn't the price of CD's rumored to go down to an affordable level a few years after they recovered the cost of development back in, oh say, 1990?
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