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Originally Posted by mwheinz
The problem is that Sony, in their wisdom, decided to actually hack the Mac operating system instead of using the built-in USB drivers, and then they wrote the hack in a half-baked manner that won't work with modern Macs.
Basically, it's as if they wrote a custom DLL that roots your Windows machine and that you needed to have installed to use their software on your machine.
Oh, wait, they did that once, too.
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This is NOT AT ALL an accurate description.
There is no rooting involved. It's a custom driver (my HiFace bypasses the USB driver too with a custom driver, no rootkit there either). As stated like 20 times, you can use the software without the driver. It allows the Reader software to recognize when a
Reader is plugged in, rather than a generic USB device. There is no hacking involved. There is no copy protection involved. It's a drag-to-the-trash uninstall. It's not even a DLL. And...
It is not a rootkit. Or even like a rootkit in any way.
These kinds of
foolish accusations take on a life of their own on the Internet, and it's important to take care of this right away.
Sheesh.
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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
 I remember that one! Their half-baked press conference excuses were hilarious.
And no, Sony was never good at the software part of anything they do, and the Reader Library and its horrible interface is just one more item on the list of proof that they need to outsource that part of their business to someone who knows what they're doing. |
And, ironically, that's exactly what Sony did!
The infamous rootkit was written by a company called First4Internet,
outsourced by Sony! They walked scott free, and Sony took all the flack. (Not saying Sony didn't deserve flack, just that the guys who
wrote the rootkit should have bourne some blame too.)
-Pie