Or maybe a million of them? Or 5,700,000 of them? That’s how many people ultimately got the rootkit spyware injected into their computers as a part of a copy protection scheme.
Angry consumers have already started stirring the pot with talk of a HolidayChristmas season boycott, and now the news gets worse for Sony. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is adding charges that the company violated anti-spyware laws.
The new charges brought by Abbott contend that MediaMax software used by Sony BMG to thwart illegal copying of music on CDs violated state laws because it was downloaded even if users rejected a license agreement.
Wow.
That’s going to take a while to recover from right there.
You can throw out all of the original apologies, because now it seems Sony had to know that it was digging around hard-drives. You don’t “accidentally” create an installer program that ignores the EULA.
The readers at Slashdot have already played out the same scenario, involving catfood.
