Monday, November 21, 2005
Is Your PC "Yours"?
Sony Recalls CD's that planted rootkit program in PC's.
Sony's CDs, which installed a rootkit program that hid its copy protection tools deep inside computers' hard drives, crossed over a line of acceptable behavior, critics say.
"Consumers don't have any kind of assurance that other companies aren't going to do the same kind of thing (as Sony)."
"A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours."
"Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over."
Sounds simple, but it's not.
But if some computer owners have shown a lack of respect for intellectual property rights, Sony's invasive content protection tools displayed a similarly tone-deaf attitude to consumers' sense of ownership over their own PCs, critics say.
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