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by carlcoryell 4960 days ago
Sony still hasn't apologized for multiple installations of rootkits on customer computers. I lost all interest in the company after they made those choices and I'm glad to see that a culture that tolerates such enmity towards their customers and disregard for copyright (they were illegally using GPL software in their rootkits as well) isn't doing well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
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cryptoz 4960 days ago
You're waiting for an apology? Last I heard, the President of that division said he didn't understand why everyone was so mad. "Nobody knows what a rootkit is anyway, why should they care?" I don't think we're ever going to get an apology from them. If we did, it sure wouldn't make up for anything or change my mind about them. They're evil bloodsucking monsters bent on the destruction of quality technology.

I've been boycotting them since '05 due to that scandal. Fuck Sony.

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ekianjo 4960 days ago
And they lost me as an online service customer (and probably others, too) with the password-and-PI-stored-in-plain-text scandal a little while ago.

Gaining one customer is hard, but losing them is very, very easy.

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dhughes 4960 days ago
Me too.

I know when I compare electronics I skip right over Sony it's just second nature at this point.

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