RE: the "Sony/BMG" virus

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

> *WHAT* danger?  I mean, there's that button they clicked, the 
> one that said 'I accept, even though there's no hint that 
> this includes a colon cleansing with a scrub brush made from 
> a week-old roadkill porcupine'.
>
> Look around - there's no danger that a large corporation will 
> feel any liability for anything perpetrated by its software.  
> Only people who have to worry are places that employ less 
> than 100 people to write malicious software.

Are you quoting Sony's legal position from a policy somewhere? ;)

They went down the wrong road. Adware and spyware vendors will start to
use this added cloaking feature to their advantage, I would guess. Plus
almost every bot that is made will most likely see if this code is there
(instead of using their own code) and use it as a standard check. Stupid
Sony..

-Todd
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