[ClumsyPilot]

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, let's throw manager that made this decision in prison.

That's what would happen to me if I sold you a piece of software and then used a backdoor to delete data of your computer

[ndriscoll]

18 years later and still waiting for the management/programmers behind Sony's trojan rootkit to face criminal charges for hundreds of thousands if not millions of violations of the CFAA.

[henriquez]

Most people don’t know what a rootkit is!

[johnnyanmac]

It's not a backdoor. if anything you're the one renting Sony's server space.

But i do wonder if and when this kind of practice will be challenged legally. Rentals are one thing but I thought they let buyers download content they delist precisely to prevent these kinds of questions.