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You hire poorly skilled hackers to write your software. This is also what happens when you hire the same people to write the uninstall programs. Welcome to the seedy underworld of programming...you wanted it, well...now you've got it and you've nobody to blame but yourselves.

And as for Sony's appology here...wow, it was what? Only a week ago that Sony was claiming that the general populace shouldn't care what rootkits are. I hope everyone realizes that Sony isn't really sorry for anything other than getting caught. People have been complaining for MONTHS now of problems with the aries.sys driver...did Sony help them? No. Don't be fooled by Sony's two-faced appology here.

I wonder if anyone at Sony is thinking about the TENS of MILLIONS of dollars wasted on the DRM techniques so far (I particularly like the 5+ million wasted on the sharpie-defeated one...that's classic), the absolute loathing by loyal customers, and the (hopefully) HUNDREDS of MILLIONS the lawsuits will cost. Sony, I've got to tell ya...what an absolute waste and disgrace of your investors money. Do you realize you've just pissed away roughly half a BILLION dollars here? That's not just a mistake...this is a trainwreck of mythical proportions. Can you imagine what the outcome would have been if Sony decided instead to treat the customer like a customer instead of a criminal? They'd be raking in the dough right now. I'm sure, though that Sony will find SOME way to blame this on their customers yet again when the heat blows over...they never learn. Sad really.
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ROOTS!  osreinstall | 11/15/05
Complete list of affected discs?  geobeck | 11/15/05
MORE than 20 CDs! see URL for list  ChazzMatt | 11/16/05
MORE than 20 CDs! see URL for list  ChazzMatt | 11/16/05
Sony didn't lie  BrewMan01 | 11/19/05
Impossible to say!  gafisher@... | 11/16/05
Sony is too slow  Ken_z | 11/15/05
Where do we return?  IT-sys | 11/15/05
Thy Kernel Crumbles  HALAPI | 11/15/05
boycott sony  gsweely | 11/15/05
Rationally?? You ask too much....  shawkins | 11/15/05
It's the stupidity that bugs me  ebrke | 11/16/05
Rationally?? You ask too much....  shawkins | 11/15/05
Again, the double post..... what's up with ZDnet??  shawkins | 11/15/05
That is why Sony and First 4 Internet must be  Mectron | 11/15/05
boycott sony  gsweely | 11/15/05
Sony Hypocrites!!!  jhoman22@... | 11/15/05
This is what happens when...  lawryll@... | 11/15/05
Programming is entry level work bites back!!!  Too Old For IT | 11/16/05
Time for a taste of their own medicine  jstme123 | 11/15/05
Taste of their own medicine  jstme123 | 11/15/05
Don't blame the artists!  gafisher@... | 11/16/05
Just what Sony is counting on.  enduser_z | 11/16/05
Sony no isolated case, this is the scary future.  kraterz | 11/16/05
RE: Sony no isolated case, this is the scary future. by kraterz  btljooz | 11/16/05
Idiotessimo  Roger Ramjet | 11/16/05
Sony Trojans  tdbriz@... | 11/16/05
Who Else?!?!  pilaar39 | 11/16/05
Bad Sony  rastaub | 11/16/05
It may not be just the CDs  NobodyHome | 11/16/05
Yeah, just in time for the PS3  Boot_Agnostic | 11/16/05
I just bet...  BitTwiddler | 11/16/05
Sony  ArthurDent | 11/16/05
Just on name alone  Boot_Agnostic | 11/17/05
Which artists' CDs are infected?  dstaubel@... | 11/23/05

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