Mark Russinovich, a Windows expert, of Sysinternals Freeware, wrote Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far - a look at the DRM software from First 4 Internet that Sony is using to cripple its music CDs. This software was designed to only allow 3 copies of a cd, and forces one to use the player software on the CD itself. The software is poorly written, infiltrates the PC, and attempts to conceal itself, just like trojans and other malware. It's also written so that if your malware scanner finds it, and deletes its files, it can crash your system. Also, if the software malfunctions, preventing you from booting into Windows, you won't be able to boot into Safe Mode either - it's there as well.Overall, it's a buggy piece of software that takes too much control over your whole system, tries to hide itself, and offers no uninstall option. This is just the latest reason to teach Sony a lesson by boycotting it. From forcing Memory Sticks onto the consumer, to using ATRACs for compression instead of MP3, for crippling most of their equipment by forcing it not to work with other manufacturers' equipment - when will people wake up and see Sony as the marketing juggernaut it really is? Sony products are NOT superior, their customer service is terrible (personal experiences), they DO NOT stand behind their product whatsoever. They may have a good design team, but it's time people started looking at function as well as form.
I hereby wow to NEVER AGAIN purchase another Sony product:
- no more Sony CDs,
- no more Sony/Columbia/MGM dvds,
- no more Sony TVs, DVD players, VCRs,
- no more Sony audio equipment,
- no more Sony car audio products (their Xtreme line was crap to begin with),
- no more Sony blank media,
- no more Sony CD/DVD burners,
- no more Sony satellite equipment,
- no more VAIO PCs or monitors,
- no more Sony Ericsson cell phones,
- no more Walkmans/Discmans/MD/Network Walkmans/Walkman phones.
It's time we all said good bye to Sony - I've had enough, when will you?
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