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- oepapel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Every CD owning American would care about this. Many Many non geeks listen to music CD's on their computers (especially the younger demographic) and if their computer breaks or is compromised then that DIRECTLY affects them. The details (how, what) are not as interesting as why (Sony=Evil, Customers=Thieves) and THAT is the story that needs to get out. They can tell this story without even saying the word rootkit.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In the US, coporations support corporate interests. There will be no critisizm, by US mass media, of corporations trying to retain their "control" on their sold products. That's why mainstream media can't be trusted to report the news. They only report the "news".
- TheTEXican, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"This is why you should hold down the shift key EVERY single time you insert a CD into your computer. I have been doing this for years and am able to rip any copy-protected CD with ease. Anybody who fails to do something so simple and easy deserves whatever the CD installs onto their computer."
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http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/UserTips/Customization/DisableCDautoplayinWindowsXPPro.html - chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Geeks care about this, the average consumer does not. You would have to spend 5 minutes just explaining a root kit and even then people wouldn't know what the hell they were talking about.
- sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2To you, average American consummer: Stop watching CNN and/or believing everything you hear on the News.
Part of the problem is denying you have one. - Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I don't know that it's suspicious so much as not a "sexy" story. In fact, the story is rather dull and difficult to explain to the average person.
Oh, but I'm sure it's a big conspiracy. Yep. - pretentious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would say that this matters to every one who has bought an iPod. If this affects more than 30 million people, I would say that this more than a non-story.
- SniperGX1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Anywho, we use Macintosh (OS X) so we don't care about "rootkits" and such.'
Rootkits begain in UNIX there chief, you mean you don't have to worry about THIS one... - TwoSlick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"CNN non-coverage of Sony DRM: running away from or hiding story?"
That, or much like most of the other tech geek stories, 95% of Americans don't care. This isn't exactly interesting news to most people, so why should they cover it? - TimmyK., on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wait, a media giant that is owned by a huge corporate conglomorate won't cover a story that might have a negative impact on it's corporate overlords?! Holy crap! i would have never thought that would happen! I hope that one of our trusted, independently owned, objective news agencies checks on this. Oh that's right, there aren't any. All the media in this country are owned by the people doing things like this "rootkit" fiasco. Kind of goes against that whole "liberal bias in the media" BS concept, doesn't it?
- Reliant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Something more to the story going on then what we are being told. Remember a couple of weeks ago when Steve Jobs said that the record labels are making more money than they deserve. I have a feeling that this story is some sort of payback at Jobs to try to shut down Itunes. It won't work of course.
- mrdlcastle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"It just doesn't pass the "would my Mom understand it" test."
How about this....
Sony has put software on their music CDs that if played on your computer has the potential to crash your computer, and let Sony what you do on your system. It also makes it easier for criminals to gain access to your computer over the internet.
I'm no journalist, but I would say most 'average' americans of any age would find this alarming and interesting. - Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"You know what I think?
There's two buttons under the comments field and one of them allows you to check YOU spelling."
To bad there is no button for grammar. - NotAPoet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1CNN's website relies on the Associated Press or Reuters for its stories. I haven't seen an AP or Reuters story on the recent Sony DRM rootkit. I doubt their a conspiracy to support Sony.
- Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^^^ Computer items just plain don't make the cut most of the time. I wrote for a local newspaper for a while, and, acknowledging the difference here, news outlets want to grab the most eyeballs in the least number of seconds. Tech-related stuff makes a lot of people tune out, and it's only your own personal comfort with it that makes things seem otherwise.
Summaries of stories are easy, but the details and a comprehensible, unbiased ("naughty?" Sony doesn't think so) headline are not easy to parse or create.
Sorry, but in the final analysis, I can see why CNN might have skipped this story. Spin out all the conspiracy theories you like, but I demand a bit more evidence than personal conjecture. - jab1981, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"It just doesn't pass the "would my Mom understand it" test."
If that's the gold standard to get a story posted on CNN... I think they've got to take about 90% of their ***** down right now. Further, the story in question is VERY easy to summarize. Sony CD's are doing very naughty things when put into a computer. Not exactly rocket science... and yes my Mom understood that. ;-) - CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1CNN got some ca$h from Sony methinks
"This is why you should hold down the shift key EVERY single time you insert a CD into your computer. I have been doing this for years and am able to rip any copy-protected CD with ease. Anybody who fails to do something so simple and easy deserves whatever the CD installs onto their computer."
So everyone in the entire world should know about pressing shift or else they're instantly an idiot? Surely you've noticed that not everyone knows how to use a computer properly, and i'd say that it's a bit rediculous to call all these people idiots because they don't do this one little thing. And consider the fact that, if everyone knew, there wouldnt be any reason to put in the DRM anyway, and they'd just figure out a new way to get you. Just because you can easily get around it doesn't make it morally acceptable. - Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Every CD owning American would care about this."
I'm not so sure about that. It just doesn't pass the "would my Mom understand it" test. The average person sees the acronyms and "computer talk" and tunes out. - Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"That, or much like most of the other tech geek stories, 95% of Americans don't care. This isn't exactly interesting news to most people, so why should they cover it?"
Well, so they know what they are getting when they put a CD from Sony into their PC? Either that or word of mouth is the only way they are going to find out. - chukd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would suggest that every Apple owner write to the company and support them in their decision to stand up against SonyBMG and write to the artists that they would buy under those labels.
- tsbruford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How weird that most people on digg think they are so elite. "normal people won't understand it". Oh boy, and most normal people don't understand the war in Iraq or the indictment of Scooter Libby, or even half of the Clinton scandals. However they all think they know, and therefore follow the stories. It's not about people being able to understand, it's about CNN wanting people to understand. Most media out there is about exactly what somebody does and does not want you to hear.
- lordsandwich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good. Let the general public continue to purchase Sony's CDs. When the inevitable exploit comes around and trashes all their computers, Congress will actually sit up and pay attention a newly-enraged constituency. Then maybe we'll get our fair use rights back.
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't forget to subtract from the 95% of americans who don't care the 3% that don't use windows and who don't have this problem.
- geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Koko775: enough of your stupidly biased opinions. Americans tend to be close minded? ALL humans tend to be close minded, no matter WHERE they are from. If you're going to bash America, do a better job than that, you lazy ass.
- notkevin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Are you saying Time Warner cares more about protecting a fellow RIAA member then sticking it to their competition? This is a tech story, not a major news event.
- koko775, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Remember that the average American is well below average. That being said, you can't expect the "news" to be anything better than mediocre."
Really? I thought the average person was...average? No, I think it has more to do with the fact that America's not as secular as the rest of the world. Not that religion is bad -- Christians can be secular thinkers, too -- but rather that America tends to be closed-minded. - awa1ct, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Honestly, I dont give a rats ass about CNN :p
Google News works for me atm :D
Then theres digg ofcourse for other tech/computer related things - laughterkillsme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0CNN, FOX News and the rest of those mainstream news outlets have become about as reliable as cheese that has been sitting out in the sun all day.
- sayitaintjonas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh the places this story will end up going....
I have a very bad feeling about the future if stories like this can go unchecked by the general public. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The evil corporations are coming!!!!!!
Seriously, when I tried to explain this Sony thing to my friends they said "What?" and never got it after 10 minutes of trying to explain. When they did get it, they didn't care. That is why its not on CNN. - peace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
I don't seem to find this news on NY times or LA times. Oh, well maybe they're just waiting Sony for doing something *right* and then do a *balanced* report. - vermin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yep, this is what happens regularly in US media. Good that it's being dugg, but it's nothing new.
- NemesisBLK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"If you're going to mindlessly bash the media and the average American, at least try not to look below average yourself."
I guess he is himself an American. Takes one to know one as the saying goes. j/k ;) - oepapel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"CNN's website relies on the Associated Press or Reuters for its stories. I haven't seen an AP or Reuters story on the recent Sony DRM rootkit. I doubt their a conspiracy to support Sony."
Here is one of MANY AP story headlines that cover it:
"Sony to offer patch to reveal hidden copy-protection software" By MATTHEW FORDAHL
Do a google search before you make ridiculous claims. - mousky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Especially with a number of major other news groups covering this issue."
Such as? - 5blocksfree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0SpeedyG says: Um, what? The average American is below average?
If you're going to mindlessly bash the media and the average American, at least try not to look below average yourself.
I think the comment was pointing out the very real (and troublesome) reality that you face when you've got large megacorps that own both the fox AND the henhouse, while also maintaining beneficial (self-serving) political affiliations. Most popular media (news) outlets produce anything BUT real journalism, since they generally look out for #1 first, and only feed their audience what's left over. - TheIguana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was wondering why CNN was not covering this huge disgusting push on Sony's part. Especially with a number of major other news groups covering this issue.
Iggy *hmm* - gloomybear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Anywho, we use Macintosh (OS X) so we don't care about "rootkits" and such."
At least not yet. Maybe next year. - SaintStryfe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too many acronyms?
"Sony Music is under fire, tonight, due to a recent release of a CD. It isn't explicit content, but what happens when you put it into a personal computer. The CD installs software that closely resembles spy ware, the computer slowing software often installed by websites, which is a major cause of computer downtime and repair. But Sony disagrees . The jury is out on this topic, but right now, Sony is trying to fix it's image in a crucial market. This Judy Woodriff, Atlanta."
See? No Acronyms at all by the reporter. - Satertek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+digg for the conspiracy theory. :D
- rjean99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"TO bad there is no button for grammar."
Yes, it is TOO bad. {gd&r} - HanSolo69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's CNN and the Sony rootkit is not a big breaking world news story. Tech news sites are there for a reaso. If anyone relies on CNN for the latest technology news then you're probably just now hearing about a little company called Microsoft.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I didn't know CNN was required to cover every peice of news out there. :
- Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^^ Look, you miss my entire point. Computer stuff = "tune out" for many people. It just does, and it doesn't matter how you parse the explanation.
I mean, look at all the virus warnings and spam warnings and all the other things that the media warns them about. Yet, people still click on things they shouldn't. They still fall for all the old tricks. They still just plain don't listen.
And if they don't listen when it comes to matters that will directly effect them no matter what they buy, I have grave doubts they will listen when it comes to something that might effect them if they buy certain types of CDs. - jandyn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0NPR has covered it and MSNBC.com and FoxNews.com have stories on it and I've seen others
awa1ct: I don't give much of a care for CNN either but a crap load of Americans do get news from them and aren't hearing how Sony is yanking people's chains
notkevin: not just techies buy music CDs or own PCs and some intersection of the 2 groups are having potentially nasty things done to their OS and ought to be able to find out about it
NotAPoet and mousky: as I said above, NPR, MSNBC and FoxNews have stories on their websites and as oepapel notes, AP is listed as the source of at least one of those stories
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9911371/
ph3rny: "no big deal... CNN deletes all stories that are a month old" Baloney: search any news type term on their site and you can see stories back several years - iFindout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I could care a flying rats sphincter what them coke hoovering anchor men and women read off the tv-prompters at their networks. Basically what I feel is up is... (insert mGee's coment here).
Nuff said! - KillaKev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1who cares? we already know CNN is insanely partisan and full of crap.
- ForbesBingley, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1You know what I think?
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