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Sony's woes won't go away

Sony's ongoing PR nightmare over the copy-protection software included on some of its CDs just got a lot worse.

BusinessWeek Online is reporting that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is looking into the rootkit situation. The AG has sent investigators into stores to see if the record label is still issuing discs with the controversial software. His office has urged consumers not to buy the discs, and if they do, not to play them on their computers, the site said.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has already filed a lawsuit against the company, but drawing the attention of Spitzer can't be good for Sony. Spitzer, who is running for governor of New York, has made his name taking on high-profile cases in the business world, and is no stranger to high tech.

Blog community response:

"Sony is now probably really, really sorry for the rootkit fiasco and probably really, really regrets its initial posture of indifference toward the world's outrage over the company's spyware-infected CDs. But, too late! Eliot Spritzer (sic) is now on the case."
--IP&Democracy

"Texas's Attorney General led the way by suing Sony BMG pretty quickly -- but Spitzer's reputation for coming down hard on companies that he believes have done something wrong can't be pleasant news for the record label that kept trying to tell everyone there was no problem at all."
--Techdirt

Posted by Margaret Kane
http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-5975007.html?part=rss&tag=597500...


QUOTE'S
Sony Should Be Banned...
Reader post by: Rod O'connor
Posted on: November 26, 2005, 1:31 PM PST
Story: Sony sailing past rootkit controversy

Sony should be banned from doing business in the US for say the next five years. None, not any. They should be forced to sell all their holdings in the US and ,ideally, be cofined to doing business in Japan. Hopefully that will put them out of business forever!

Wait until the Christmas buying season is over
Reader post by: Newsdotcom Commenter
Posted on: November 22, 2005, 9:39 AM PST
Story: Sony sailing past rootkit controversy

It's too early to be declaring Sony as unaffected, give it a couple months for the word to spread and for sales not already in the pipe to occur (or fail to occur).

Not me!
Reader post by: Ian Deal
Posted on: November 21, 2005, 3:27 PM PST
Story: Sony sailing past rootkit controversy

Actually, the high order of probability, is the reason why these infected cd's are so hot is that a variety of trojan/virus/phishers writers, are scrambling, to buy these malware audio disc's so that they can dissassemble the code, for incorporation with the next gen virii etc! Oh well, since most of Sony Corps offerings appear overpriced and not cutting edge anymore, who will buy them anyway(and include a fair number of rebrands as well)! After spending hours disinfecting a windows machine, the answer is not me. A quick scan of financial papers show that SONY HQ in '04 to create an illusion of corporate profit sold off the staff pension fund and predictions in '05 show continuing negative profit trends! Further SONY BMG, joint venture company actually posted a trading loss in '04! One can say desperate times, means desperate illegal actions to reverse the downward negative trend! Let the class action law suits kill SONY!

Spitzer Gets on Sony BMG's Case
New York's Attorney General has turned his attention to Sony BMG's copyright-protection fiasco
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2005/tc20051128...

Well,I will not be buying this console.

These guys can eat a Canada sized hole in my Idaho sized shorts.

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