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- rebrad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's time to fight fire with fire. Sony, the RIAA and the other greedy leaches will not stop until they suck every penny they can. Their lame excuses of protecting the artist are unfounded when you follow the money. The artist suffers along with the consumer. Until the consumers who pay good money utilize the same tools that parasites do, the media moguls Big Brother tactics will only get more aggressive and more imposing. We not only need to hire lawyers but we need to make this political. Because of evolving technologies the big media companies are losing their ability to totally control distribution and pour money in the coffers of our politicians. Politicians will follow the money until the people that put them in office let them know that they will send them home to the unemployment line.
Hard working consumers need to;
1. Write, don't call your representatives and tell them that their job is on the line.
2. Join any class action suit that comes down the pike. Make them sweat.
3. Don't buy from companies that support or sell such insidious products. That includes all their products; CDs, TVs or any other item they produce or sell.
4. Support the artist by buying directly from them. At least then they will get a more deserved share of their property until we have a truly modern distribution process that eliminates the no value parasites. - revokin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is kind of like Best Buy having a link to the Circuit City website.
- JoshD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Uhh.. Bad title. The lawsuit is not being filed by the state of California. It's a class action lawsuit filed IN California.
- roguepirate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I like how Sony decides to screw people who actually buy their CD's.
- fu_fish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How long until Sony says that "this lawsuit is only going to raise costs and hurt the consumers" and "the consumers want this technology?"
- k3n85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sony might as well just sell themselves to someone like google... cause they pretty much ruined their name with consumers like us. Tisk tisk tisk, this is what you get when you don't let things just go on as they were and you try to mess with people that know more than the company...
- Moose_Head, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hour of hate for Sony! Sony is double-plus un-good!
GRRR!!
... We were always at war with Eastasia - TimmyK., on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hahaha. If they charged a reasonable ammount for a CD, like say $5, then people would go hog wild buying them because it wouldn't be worth finding them illegaly. And at $5 a CD they would still make MASSIVE profits.
- cerisaac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Check this out...
http://digg.com/music/Sony_s_Attitude_Has_a_History - NeilM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2*Terminator 2 Intro Sounds*
- Canadave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They were sued IN the State of California, not BY the State of California.
- thatotherguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Again, be sure and let them know how poorly they have chosen to screw with consumers:
http://www.sonymusic.com/feedback/ - bacon_skoda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sony's rootkit is accomplishing what they hoped to prevent....lost of revenue.
- phantom_mullet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg is going to need a new category just for Sony and their DRM woes if this keeps up...
- Chango_Family, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember the old days when Phish used to fight for their fans right to tape and trade their live shows, something big labels used to get convulsions from.
I guess Trey now thinks its fine to treat his fans as criminals. - pseudojd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0been watching this story blow up. crazy stuff. seems like Sony underestimated some things.
- bfbdiggsTECH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sony & BMG is compromising us all. Sony and BMG are now on my list of companies to boycott. The only way to get your point across is to not support their products and services. How arrogant! This is one time I hope the lawyers have their day in courts across the country.
- cerisaac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Check this out...
http://digg.com/technology/DRM_the_way_it_should_be.... - unclejesse0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Finally someone doing something serious about Sony. I hate Sony now.
- -Ov3roN-, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh hell ya. Let the march against sony begin. Best Magatron voice - Die Sony!
- kilmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Original story here: http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just hate Sony for doing this, there's me thinking they were a honest corporation
- thatotherguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.boycottsony.us/
More to keep an eye on. - xodex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0w00t, If they were sued like california did to microsoft I'm going to get some GREEN! too :)
- datruth29, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Finally. I hope Sony burns I tell you. BURNS!!!!! By the by, did anybody notice that this was linked to a slashdot article? This could essentially mean that the sites which are linked can go through a potential digg+slashdot effect! o_o Oh, the humanity
- paulwoll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I probably won't buy a PS3 because of the blu-ray drive and the DRM software that will be on the PS3. Rumors have it that they may prevent the use of used copies or friends copies of games from running on the system. Sayonara if they do that.
- SinisterBunni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Jumping on the bandwagon again... YEA!!! It's about time that we see corporate criminals prosecuted. I am tired of seeing 6 year olds and little old ladies prosecuted under DMCA.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"It is my mission to digg every single story about the rootkit debacle because it DOES NOT GET OLD!!!1!"
No it doesnt, this need to be brought out in every way shape or form! Companies like this need to know that pulling this kind of B.S. will not stand with the public. So yes, KEEP THE STORIES COMMING. dugg. - aburd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"It's only going to prevent people who don't know what they're doing."
That is all any DRM does. Everything that can be pirated is pirated. Only ignorant consumers and overly-moral, yet knowledgable consumers are screwed by any DRM. - aliasunknown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Have to wonder, could Sony use the DMCA to protect itself?
- aggies11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We are all missing the potential on this one.
Finding out that you have this installed on your computer, actually violates the DMCA. So hopefully sony will actually SUE california back, because it's information they obtained illegally.
Then the courts will have no choice but to invalidate the ridiculousness that is the dmca.
I have my fingers crossed ;)
Aggies - Squinty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hot!
- tempest, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I see my local Hastings store is still selling spyware infected cds dispite the news already being broke.
- Bitgod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder how much the hardware side of Sony hates the software side at the moment. I know they've butted heads in the past, and I suspect some people are going to boycott all Sony products for a while. I know I am, I'm looking at HDTVs, but won't look at a Sony now.
- Yoda716, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's about time. Oops there goes there profit margins.
- MasterDwarf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Silly Sony, laws are for everyone. :-)
http://www.boycottsony.us/ - ryannemeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Think if I go out an buy one of these disks, install it and DL one of the viruses that take advantage of it, and "lose" some kind of important data that affects me financially, I could get in and sue sony for a couple G's?
- sporkman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hahaha, the link goes to a slashdot site.. lol. the author of this digg is stupid, instead of linking to the site, they link to slashdot, wouldn't it have been funny if we took down slashdot, and so slashdot has the digg effect? QUESTION MARK!!! but anyway, yeah it's kind of illegal to do that I would think, so I think CA will win the case.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, F-sony!!! This crap is on my PC. Figures the 1st CD I pay for in 3 years and it infects my computer.
http://plueballs.libsyn.com/ - GRIMREAPER187, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0HEAR THAT????????????????????? Yep Sony Crapped it's pants.
- roguepirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I guess leaving a huge hole for somebody to implant a trojan or whatever else really is pretty innovative. I hope more companies do that. Perhaps the next innovation from sony should be cell phones that really do cause cancer, that would be really innovative.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have to say though, at least all of the rootkit drm cd's suck...so that should have limited the number of people affected.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0w00t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- xedeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0FUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK SOOOOONNNNNYYYYYY!!!
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0People normaly flame when someone submits something that's been on slashdot recently.. But directly linking to slashdot is okay? o.O
Meh, anyway, boo for sony etc
- Ben - Incognito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0***** SONY
+DIGG
Tell your friends - gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0all I buy from sony is Playstation's. THATS IT.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is why i dont buy sony
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sony said that some people do not care, because they do not know what a rootkit is.
Well, I guess most of us know by now what a rootkit is, and Sony is experiencing the wrath of consumers and organizations. - karlfrankowski, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It is my mission to digg every single story about the rootkit debacle because it DOES NOT GET OLD!!!1!
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