Comments on: Microsoft will wipe Sony's 'rootkit'

Security tools will detect and remove part of the copy protection tools installed on PCs when music CDs are played.

[llaitner]

boycott sony, BMG, Columbia, Legagy, Epic, et al

Don't jusy boycott sony, boycott all their subsidiaries. Boycott Sony, BMG, Columbia, Legacy, Epic and probably others. Is RCA a Sony subsidiary?

[ChimiCelena]

Boycott Sony BMG & RIAA

I think that people should stop buying all movies all music until Sony BMG AKA RIAA stop suing Single Mothers, Grandparents and College Students. They say they are going after them due to pirating for resale. Excuse me? When did they plan on reselling? None have. Yet they cannot seem to catch the smart ones. They are copying and selling music and movies worldwide. Why can't they? They are lazy arses. People are having yardsales, going to fleamarkets and other venues to sell pirated music. Big difference compared to the occasionaly child who downloads a song or a movie. They need to focus on the real pirates and leave the other's alone. Meanwhile we should all STOP BUYING ALL MUSIC AND MOVIES.

[Hernys]

Wait...

You are talking about this issue as if all Sony did wrong was using DRM. Doing DRM is not what's at stake here. DRM might be considered good, bad or evil. But it's not illegal (ant least not in the US right now) and not everybody agrees it's wrong.
Installing a rootkit without user's consent is. That's what makes Sony "evil" here. Did Microsoft install a Rootkit? No. Would they? So far, they haven't and there is no indication that they will. Microsoft has done what they should here, and you use this as an opportunity to bash them because "they would have done it if Sony didn't beat them"???? Sheees.

[czarousa]

Blame microsoft for making you a computer literate oo

Iraq, Palestine, Israel, sisters running away, international relations blame every thing on Microsoft...

[DethLord]

Sony cd problem overlaps onto the DVD format!!!!!!

I think i've discovered a new wrinkle in the SONY screwup with the rootkit. I used to be able to save movies to my HD on my laptop so i could play them on a trip. Now i've got a problem when i try to do save a movie that has a SONY logo on it i get an error message!. I have no problem doing this with other DVD's. Has anyone noticed this problem yet????? It's becoming a real pain.
When i downloaded a Sony move a couple of weeks ago the screen flickered a few times, but i thought it was my monitor. Now i think it was a buried program running off the new movie disc.
Someone with a bit more experience then myself should look into this problem. Maybe we can get Sony on this too. If they are loading a new backdoor rootkit on their DVD's too, then we need to give them hell for that.

[betolima64]

Just say NO to Sony. We're not criminals.

The best thing to do against Sony's abuse is to boycott all their products, it doesn't matter whether they're from Sony Electronics or Sony Music.
We can not be treated like criminals.
Also, who will believe in any word provided by Sony? The company claims it will stop "for while" the DRM process. Wow, that's great. It looks Sony is doing a favour to us. That seems ironic to me.
Acting like that Sony is out of the condition of piracy's victim and enters in the world of the hackers.
What a shame!

No More SONY Products

That's it, no more SONY products of ANY kind for my family!

[jdbwar07]

Government hypocrisy

The government should go after Sony the same way they go after independent crackers and virus writers. Unfortunately since politicians are funded by corporate moguls and the entertainment industry, it doesn't look likely.

So basically a teenage computer whiz who likes hacking into computers from home for fun will get prosecuted by the (now neocon) DOJ and get many years in federal prison.

Meanwhile, a high-paid executive of a major corporation ,out of pure greed, instructs his staff to write privacy-invading spyware that will infect millions of computers, in order to ripoff its very consumers and extract as much $$$ out of them as possible.

With our society, it looks like the latter will get away with it or at the most get a slap on the wrist. Honestly, the society we live in...

[dolly234]

BOYCOT SONY PRODUCTS

SONY HAS GOT TO BIG FOR THERE BRIDGES EVERYONE THAT SEES THIS SHOUD BOYCOT SONY FOR CHRISTMAS ALSO WHAT WILL SONY PUT IN THE NEW BLUE-RAY DISC ?????? IF YOU ARE GOING TO TRY TO SUE SONY YOU HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF RUNNING FOR THE PRESEDENT JUST LIKE ANYONE WITH THIS KIND OF MONEY YOU WILL NOT GET ANYWERE WITH THEM AND THEY WILL GET A SMACK ON THE HAND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENDS WITH COMPANYS LIKE THIS THEY WILL SAY DONT DO THAT AGAIN BUTTTT IF YOU OR I WOULD GIVE SOMEONE A VIRUS WE GO TO GAIL DO NOT PAS GO AND DO NOT COLLECT 200 DOLLARS BECAUSE YOU DONT HAVE THE MONEY TO PUT IN THERE POCKETS SO GOODLUCK TRYING TO FIX YOUR COMPUTER