16 November 2005 - Sony in therapy
< yesterday --
tomorrow >
Sony: All I wanted was for everybody to have a safe,
enjoyable music experience....
therapist: Now remember, the first step toward acknowledging
your problems is to be served with a class-action lawsuit.
Sony: ... as long as it was profitable. Is it wrong to
lock other people’s houses so they can’t steal from you?
therapist: When you want to get started, I have just
a few questions—
Sony: Is it wrong to monitor when our CDs are played?
Not that we would ever do that, of course.
therapist: Of course. Now, if we could get started—
Sony: Our words were twisted. Our software didn’t open
new avenues of attack. The bad guys had to break in before
it gave them the keys to the treasure room.
therapist: Hello? Are you listening at all?
Sony: And how were we to know that our way of removing
the software would open such a gaping world-class security
hole? It’s so hard to find good henchmen nowadays.
therapist: Away, ye font of evil, away!
Sony: Well, at least I’m still popular.
clue:
How long has listening to music been dangerous?
If there were ever grounds for a consumer boycott....
It has everything: Greed, incompetence, lying and coverups,
stonewalling, injury to millions of innocents, and what I
would call fraud.
give me a clue so sweet and true