Tram Town
Friday, November 11, 2005
| Category: As noted before, Sony CDs often do nasty things to your computer. If they get to infect your computer they provide a backdoor for other more malignant nasties to get in. It's their IP and they can try to protect it but not if it is harmful to my property. I will be consciously avoiding Sony music until they put this right. From the Washigton Post an article on this same subject (so it's not just me cherry picking right wing stories from Fox!) quotes a Sony music division head honcho as saying Right now it would be possible for us, and I’ve often thought it would cheer me up to do it, you could dispatch a virus to anybody whose files contain us or Columbia records, and make them listen to four hours of Yanni ... but in the end we’re going to have to get serious about encryption and digital-rights management and watermarking.This in March of 2001! And, sure, perhaps he was being facetious but these sort of statements breed a certain culture and it can (and DOES) lead to unpleasant policies. |
