[OT] Sony music installs secret malware gateway

[Richard Gaskin]

xavier.bury at clearstream.com wrote:
> It would be nice if religious animosities were replaced with real 
> professional comments instead of Mac this, pc that

This isn't a religious issue. Humans are humans, and they don't read 
manuals on either platform.

The critical element at play here is that -- before Sony's abuse of the 
public trust -- users had no reason to expect that merely inserting a 
MUSIC CD would install software.


> just my 2 cents on this OT unrelated slab at pc users which is absolutely 
> unrelated to rev anything.

PC users are not responsible for the corporate decisions of Sony and 
Microsoft.

The thread is marked as [OT]; the best way to kill an OT thread is to 
not perpetuate it.  I don't think you want to initiate a relevance contest.

A user here requested info on auto-run just last week, and the week 
before we had a rather lengthy discussion of the implications of 
auto-run for developers of portable apps.

If the facts are inconvenient for Sony and Microsoft, don't shoot the 
messenger, take it up with Sony and Microsoft.


> But then again, you do enjoy it when you insert a new CD and you're 
> prompted with an installation dialog instead of having to go find
> the installer in the CD manually arent you? 

Do I value sleeping well at the cost of a double-click?  Sure.

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