irony

[piranha]

the only safe way to listen to new music from sony on one's computer is to rip it.

there's that rootkit that everyone and zir sibling has by now heard about, which is already being exploited by virus writers. ok, sony, while not being very apologetic, said they're gonna stop making discs with the rootkit for now. but there's apparently another piece of shit spyware on other discs in their repertoire.

boycotting sony seems like a very good idea. also, lawsuits.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

Today, I bought a CD with a note on it saying, "WARNING!!! This record can only be played ONCE!"

I doubt Monty Python quite intended for that to be foreshadowing.

[necturus.livejournal.com]

I say rip it! Rip it good.

(sorry)

I haven't bought many CD's lately (the last one I bought was from elissaann in July). I suppose if I bought one from Sony it couldn't affect my computer, though, since I run Linux. But maybe the damned things don't play under Linux.