Tag: idiotic-record-companies

  • This Just Gets Better And Better

    Ahhhh, Sony BMG, how we love to hate thee! Not only have you been caught installing unauthorized rootkits on your customers’ PCs, but it’s been found that you’re illegally using LGPL’d software to do so. Tsk tsk. What’s the Japanese word for schadenfreude, anyways? Anti-Competitive Update #1: Via Fark, we find out that Sony BMG…

  • Sony – Doing Their Best To Drive Their Customers Away, One Rootkit At A Time

    Let’s first posit that you’re a multinational corporation with vast and sundry interests in various industries, including the music business. Let’s then posit that you were caught installing highly dubious software on your customers’ PCs in order to prevent “piracy”. What would you do if someone discovered that your “solution” to the problems you’ve caused…