For my money, this has to be the best story to emerge from the blogosphere to date. Watching it develop over the past 2 weeks has been fascinating:
- from Mark Russinovich’s original post,
- to being picked up by the mainstream media,
- to Sony’s repeated attempts to shoot off their own feet,
- and the news of pending lawsuits.
And it just keeps getting better (or worse, depending on your standpoint). Today, The Register reports that the first trojan to exploit the Sony-BMG rootkit to conceal itself has been found in the wild. This story has a great deal more mileage in it yet!
I mentioned in September that I’d already stopped buying BMG discs, because of the aggravation caused by an earlier copy protection scheme. I suspect rather more people are now adopting the same attitude to this company’s disgraceful disregard for its paying customers.