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.



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.

[grazzhoppa]

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

Sony's facing 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).