benedelman.org— Ben Edelman demonstrates how Sony could use their DRMed cd software to notify their customers of the recall. Lets digg this to spread awareness of this possibility and let Sony know what to do.
Nov 22, 2005View in Crawl 4
Here's a thought. Let Sony know that not only will you stop buying Sony/BMG Music, but also Sony Audio and Video equipment, and no PS3's, PSP's, or any related material or products.
If someone got around to making the script that that causes the message to be displayed then we could all point our poison our own DNS servers to point connected.sonymusic.com at it then we could inform everyone down stream about it (or anything else we wanted). I have had to do that before for a virus to stop users on my network downloading a Trojan
> anti-Sony people [are] parasites.Say again. How do you figure that? I'm the one with damaging, parasitic code wedged in between my operating system and my optical drive.This is about market correction. This is the consumer, stick-end of capitalism that *MUST* function to force corporations to behave responsibly and ethically. It is literally in the interest of EVERY consumer on the entire planet to punish Sony until they can take no more (maybe until they go out of business... that would be fine by me). In short, this is NOT about letting a corporate body get off scott-free just because they eventually admitted that what they have done to millions of people was WRONG.The reality is that companies spend lots of money to spin their more extreme f**kups against consumers... so, I have to ask at this point: are you astroturf? You sure smell like it.> I would settle for nothing less than the honorable deaths of the > Sony CEO and his henchmen in the traditional ceremony of harikari.Yeah... only problem is that the Sony CEOs who put this particular wheel in motion is an American CEO... they have no honor and as a consequence their death would be meaningless... so, feel free to shoot them on the street like the mad dogs that they are.> the damage is already done, even if they do recall the cds the > DRM software is still going to be there. They've created a huge> huge security issue.Only Sony knows *exactly* how many of these CDs they've sold and they're also the only ones who know *exactly* how many of these CDs they've recalled. If automakers have a critical component failure that threatens lives and reputations (let's see the first case of Sony assisted malware used to make someone look like they're surfing porn at work), they are forced to recall the product. In extreme cases, they are forced to refund money or provide the consumer with a product from another company. Sony CDs are like nuclear waste just accumulating out there... it is in Sony's best interest of recall these CDs, offering consumers money in exchange for the return... do you think free MP3 are really going to get consumers to send in their CDs? Fsck no. They're going to pawn them off at the second hand shop and get some cold, hard cash and foist the problem off on some other poor schmuck's back.
w0rdNov 23, 2005
Sony won't do anything resembling this until they are forced to by a court order.
fishyjoeNov 23, 2005
The best way to change Sony's ways is to stop buying their products.
jdehnertNov 23, 2005
Here's a thought. Let Sony know that not only will you stop buying Sony/BMG Music, but also Sony Audio and Video equipment, and no PS3's, PSP's, or any related material or products.
thegoldfishNov 23, 2005
If someone got around to making the script that that causes the message to be displayed then we could all point our poison our own DNS servers to point connected.sonymusic.com at it then we could inform everyone down stream about it (or anything else we wanted). I have had to do that before for a virus to stop users on my network downloading a Trojan
elxxNov 23, 2005
Argh, you submitters really need to stop giving articles for the anti-Sony people to feed on. They're like parasites.
absentlightNov 24, 2005
They could apologize. At the least...
Closed AccountNov 24, 2005
> anti-Sony people [are] parasites.Say again. How do you figure that? I'm the one with damaging, parasitic code wedged in between my operating system and my optical drive.This is about market correction. This is the consumer, stick-end of capitalism that *MUST* function to force corporations to behave responsibly and ethically. It is literally in the interest of EVERY consumer on the entire planet to punish Sony until they can take no more (maybe until they go out of business... that would be fine by me). In short, this is NOT about letting a corporate body get off scott-free just because they eventually admitted that what they have done to millions of people was WRONG.The reality is that companies spend lots of money to spin their more extreme f**kups against consumers... so, I have to ask at this point: are you astroturf? You sure smell like it.> I would settle for nothing less than the honorable deaths of the > Sony CEO and his henchmen in the traditional ceremony of harikari.Yeah... only problem is that the Sony CEOs who put this particular wheel in motion is an American CEO... they have no honor and as a consequence their death would be meaningless... so, feel free to shoot them on the street like the mad dogs that they are.> the damage is already done, even if they do recall the cds the > DRM software is still going to be there. They've created a huge> huge security issue.Only Sony knows *exactly* how many of these CDs they've sold and they're also the only ones who know *exactly* how many of these CDs they've recalled. If automakers have a critical component failure that threatens lives and reputations (let's see the first case of Sony assisted malware used to make someone look like they're surfing porn at work), they are forced to recall the product. In extreme cases, they are forced to refund money or provide the consumer with a product from another company. Sony CDs are like nuclear waste just accumulating out there... it is in Sony's best interest of recall these CDs, offering consumers money in exchange for the return... do you think free MP3 are really going to get consumers to send in their CDs? Fsck no. They're going to pawn them off at the second hand shop and get some cold, hard cash and foist the problem off on some other poor schmuck's back.