Comments on: Trust your CD’s? http://thesnarky.com/2005/11/22/trust-your-cds/ The Words of the One Who Calls Himself a Philosopher Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:13:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ahh, rootkit » Untitled http://thesnarky.com/2005/11/22/trust-your-cds/comment-page-1/#comment-38838 ahh, rootkit » Untitled Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:10:59 +0000 http://thesnarky.com/?p=2#comment-38838 [...] about this? Because I was reminded of Sony’s recent crimes against humanity by Snarky’s new blog. Beyond the sentiments in my comment on his [...] [...] about this? Because I was reminded of Sony’s recent crimes against humanity by Snarky’s new blog. Beyond the sentiments in my comment on his [...]

]]> By: Kalimat al-Mutafalsif » Blog Archive » What a Year http://thesnarky.com/2005/11/22/trust-your-cds/comment-page-1/#comment-1993 Kalimat al-Mutafalsif » Blog Archive » What a Year Sat, 18 Nov 2006 04:31:29 +0000 http://thesnarky.com/?p=2#comment-1993 [...] Big posts I believe I created the blog to talk about the Sony BMG Fiasco. This was my first serious post, and it got some decent reads by a variety of people. Unfortunately for the world, this has pretty much blown over in a year. Heck, it had blown over within 6 months. What a shame a company got away with this when non-malicious citizens are thrown into court for downloading one song to the tune of $2,000. Had Sony gotten such treatment, it would be out of business (I refer to the fact that Sony included source code that was licensed. In addition they took it from a man whom the music industry tried to have thrown in jail.) [...] [...] Big posts I believe I created the blog to talk about the Sony BMG Fiasco. This was my first serious post, and it got some decent reads by a variety of people. Unfortunately for the world, this has pretty much blown over in a year. Heck, it had blown over within 6 months. What a shame a company got away with this when non-malicious citizens are thrown into court for downloading one song to the tune of $2,000. Had Sony gotten such treatment, it would be out of business (I refer to the fact that Sony included source code that was licensed. In addition they took it from a man whom the music industry tried to have thrown in jail.) [...]

]]> By: Kalimat al-Mutafalsif » Blog Archive » Random update on many fronts http://thesnarky.com/2005/11/22/trust-your-cds/comment-page-1/#comment-979 Kalimat al-Mutafalsif » Blog Archive » Random update on many fronts Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:38:02 +0000 http://thesnarky.com/?p=2#comment-979 [...] First off, I changed my layout back to what it was when I started the blog. Mainly because that other one I used had some quirks to it I didn’t like. I hope to come up with a new one somewhat soon as well asadding a domain (Note, domain is empty as of right now not even a server for it) that I’ve always wanted which *just* became available. [...] [...] First off, I changed my layout back to what it was when I started the blog. Mainly because that other one I used had some quirks to it I didn’t like. I hope to come up with a new one somewhat soon as well asadding a domain (Note, domain is empty as of right now not even a server for it) that I’ve always wanted which *just* became available. [...]

]]> By: allaryin http://thesnarky.com/2005/11/22/trust-your-cds/comment-page-1/#comment-7 allaryin Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:55:23 +0000 http://thesnarky.com/?p=2#comment-7 Yeah. This is really quite sad. I have always been a huge fan of Sony's hardware - Playstation, TV's, etc... The Vaio is the #1 line of desktop computers in Japan... Heck, I use Sony headphones. They have an absolutely obscene market share, so it was inevitable that they fell to the dark side. I've noticed that this sort of problem invariably rears its filthy little head whenever a large company decides to break into yet another market. BMG has always been evil, so nothing really new there, but the whole rootkit garbage is a new low. "Hey, we're going to compromise your system's security. It's not wrong because you're too stupid to know any better." Yeah. This is really quite sad. I have always been a huge fan of Sony’s hardware – Playstation, TV’s, etc… The Vaio is the #1 line of desktop computers in Japan… Heck, I use Sony headphones.

They have an absolutely obscene market share, so it was inevitable that they fell to the dark side. I’ve noticed that this sort of problem invariably rears its filthy little head whenever a large company decides to break into yet another market.

BMG has always been evil, so nothing really new there, but the whole rootkit garbage is a new low. “Hey, we’re going to compromise your system’s security. It’s not wrong because you’re too stupid to know any better.”

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