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Originally Posted by HarryT
I take it that "ironic understatement" is not your thing
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Sorry for a violent reaction but when I hear "Sony" and "rootkit" in the same sentence i start to see red.
The sad thing is that the vast majority of consumers out there do not realize they are being screwed.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
as a reputable company, Sony did not knowingly intend those consequences
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Sony is not a reputable company anymore.
They live of their goodwill that is slowly diminishing.
I am pretty sure they did not plan all those consequences. Especially not the disastrous Public Relations outcome.
What I find very disturbing is that they absolutely do not care about consequences. They do not care that they mess up your computer grandiosely, they do not care if they do several hundred dolars worth of damage to your computer, or prevent you from exercising your "fair use" rights as long as they think they can squeeze yet another [potential] cent from you or from somebody else.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
If this was not Sony's software, how could they have stolen anything? Surely it was the authors of the software who did the stealing, rather than Sony, was it not?
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It was Sony software. It was distributed by Sony, on Sony CDs under Sony name brand. It was even called "the Sony music player" or something like that and the [visible] parts of software did display Sony logo and claimed to be Sony software.
Sony commissioned "First 4 Internet" to do the dirty work for them.
Does it really matter if the entity that stole the code was a person (programmer) hired and paid for by Sony or a legal version of "a person" - a company?
At the very least they should have been paying "Due Diligence" and look at the software they were so flamboyantly distributing (or pushing down our collective throats regardless).
They WERE distributing pieces of software they did not have rights to distribute. Period.
Do you know whose fingers typed the actual code of the "Sony Connect Software"? Do you care if it was an employee, or a hired external contractor or if a code was purchased from a questionable source? For all practical purposes it IS Sony software. Who would you blame if the "Sony Connect Software" does something nasty to your computer?