Feelings of Guilt

I was starting to feel that I was being hard on Sony. As I have said I generally like their kit. Then I heard about the rootkit fiasco. One of the things that really annoys me about this article is the quote from "a company executive" that

"most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it"

To me this shows a complete arrogance and a disregard for people. Most people may not know what a Trojan virus is but it is cetainly something they should care about.

Do these people not realise that by doing this sort of thing they are encouraging people to download MP3's in preference to installing something unknown and potentially dangerous onto their computer. Do they not realise they are penalising the very people who are actually buying the CD's and not the pirates. People pay a lot of money for a computer and don't want it sabotaged. What makes this whole thing more laughable is that it is so simple to circumvent all this copyright protection using Sony equipment. I know someone who bought a copy protected CD that they wanted to put onto their Ipod. The copy protection was supposed to mean that this couldn't be done. The next day it had been using a very low tech solution. This is legitimate use.