Sony’s Fony Graffiti | Sangent - The Daily Ramblings

submitted by Sang on 12.4.2005 in Jokes, Life, Links

In October 2005, it was revealed by Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals that Sony BMG Music Entertainment’s music CD’s had installed a rootkit on the user’s computer as a DRM measure (called Extended Copy Protection by its creator, British company First 4 Internet), which was extremely difficult to detect or to remove. This constitutes a crime in many countries, and poses a major security risk to affected users, as well as a small drain on computer system resources. Users may even damage their computer while trying to uninstall it, a fact that drew further criticism of Sony’s actions. Sony is facing several class action lawsuits regarding this matter.

Now, Sony is hiring graffiti artists to advertise their Sony PSP in inner-city neighborhoods…as if those kids can afford the system.