I really hope it too; though hope is quite always so hardly challenged when it comes to economy & politics... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
Another thing that angers me is the so little attention this case had in the mainstream medias. If you don't purposely search for it, chances are that you'd never have heard about it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

Of course they probably knew that what they doing is wrong; but in the market and in politics, they often rise themselves above those common principles. Take the first answer that one of Sony-BMG's presidents, Thomas Hesse, had when the story began running the news: "Most peolpe don't even know what a rootkit is, so why would they care about it?" There is no wrong, wrong is what could decrease their income; the rest, whatever it is, is acceptable.
Also, actually they only "recall" the CDs equipped with the XCP software, not SunnComm's one. And they have absolutely no intention to give up on developping their copy-protection scheme.

A little light is that they have now driven the attention of another big one, the NY General attorney:
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Perhaps the scariest sentence any company exec can hear these days is that their company is being investigated by NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. While Sony may have initially brushed off the rootkit issue by saying that it didn't matter since no one knew what a rootkit was, it appears that Spitzer is now quite familiar with rootkits and that's probably not good news for the Sony BMG. Texas's Attorney General led the way by suing Sony BMG pretty quickly -- but Spitzer's reputation for coming down hard on companies that he believes have done something wrong can't be pleasant news for the record label that kept trying to tell everyone there was no problem at all.


See also: An interesting paper.

LaFille, Toujours un peu sauvage.