A little spyware with the tunes please

Those of you dinosaurs who still buy music CD's may want to have a look at this:

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/a...is_just_as.html

Holy crap! I'm selling my Sony laptop and getting a Dell.

Cheers

James

Holy crap!  I'm selling my Sony laptop <edit> and getting a computer that runs any of the public *nix/Linux distributions, or even (heaven forfend) a Macintosh, as the Sony rootkit only affects Windows machines</edit>

 

Cheers

James

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Fixed that there for you James

BTW: disabling autoplay stops the rootkit installation too... real secure and uncrackable DRM there Sony

Craig: Lots of people run Linux on the Vaio 505 series Sony laptops - so nice try...:-P

Cheers

James

True... but why support the vendor who foisted this crap on the world by buying their hardware. So I suppose I will let you buy a Dell then run linux on it

BTW: Watch this thread come back to bite me when I buy an HDR HC1

True... but why support the vendor who foisted this crap on the world by buying their hardware. So I suppose I will let you buy a Dell then run linux on it 

 

BTW: Watch this thread come back to bite me when I buy an HDR HC1   

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No need to wait. What's doing the image capture inside your Nikon/Sony D70 ?

What's doing the image capture inside your Nikon/Sony D70 ?

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Man, that didn't take long...