WAY too f-ing far!

[draconis]

As a long-time programmer and general computer geek, I can understand the problems of protecting your work from piracy. I can easily see where the same problems exist for the music industry, with people making and distributing illegal copies of music.

Wanting to protect your source of income is a perfectly reasonable thing.

However, Sony has taken this idea to a new and abhorrent extreme -- audio CDs which, when played on a computer's optical drives instead of a simple CD player, installs a rootkit on that computer.

Note to self: Sony gets no more of my money.