Sony Backs Down

The Bush administration chastized Sony about the rootkit scandal. Talk about embarrassing.

In related news, Microsoft has officially labeled the rootkit as malicious software.

It's about damn time...

Still, don't buy their music.

Um..i'm not computer literate at all....
Is this the thing about putting spyware on your pc if you play a Sony CD in it? Or something else?
Help

Um..i'm not computer literate at all....
Is this the thing about putting spyware on your pc if you play a Sony CD in it? Or something else?
Help

Yeah. It's a Trojan, pretty much. It installs itself and keeps tabs on you. Then, it opens your computer wide open to virus attacks.

For anyone interested I did find a partial list of some of the cds that have this software on it..

Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)

Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)

Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)

Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)

Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)

Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)

Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)

The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)

Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)

Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)

Amerie, Touch (Columbia)

Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)

Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy)

Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)

Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)

The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)

The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)

Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)

Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)

Oddly enough, do Interscope Records have this software too? I know on my Beck and NIN cd's they won't play in my computer cd drive unless it's Hooked up the the internet.

No...not my Celine Dion CD
I'm pretty sure I played a Beck CD in my PC once (when it wasn't connected to the 'net) but this was a good 7 years back (I think)

I just tried "Guero" it wouldn't work.