Sony cough up for anti-piracy rootkit

[deddard]

Sony have finally been shamed into paying out for their rootkit:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6197107.stm

[PrntRhd]

More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/20/sony_rootkit_drm_settlement/

[LadyGrey]

I am so tickled that Sony has been made to pay for what they have done. I have not bought a movie or music disk made my them or BMG since all this came out. I still won't buy anything of theirs but I'm sure glad to see that they got caught. Don't think it was tough enough though, they should be prevented from doing something like this ever again not just having to disclose it for a year.

[Artik2]

If they try to lower the prices? then they may not need to protect the cds so hard.

[sassie05]

12 months! This is outrageous! Then what? Back to installing SPYWARE on unsuspecting consumers, like me?

Geez !