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You have to admit it was an ingenious idea,
albeit underhanded!

An interesting thing I read about it (not reported on ZDNet) pointed out that they violated at least two copyrights to try and protect their own copyright.

Their software contains open-source libraries and programs which they are commercially distributing against the GPL.

http://dewinter.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=215

Sony actually copy-and-pasted the code into their own program. They didn't even have the decency to link the GPL code properly, much less credit it.

Nice, huh?
Posted by: Hugh Jass   Posted on: 11/17/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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so  Jack-Booted EULA | 11/17/05
RTFS  htotten | 11/17/05
Don't use it myself  Jack-Booted EULA | 11/17/05
Doesn't matter  vdraken | 11/17/05
it *was* AIM related, now the scope is broader..  paperghost | 11/17/05
AIM on windows whatever!  Reverend MacFellow | 11/17/05
Troll?  PMC-CON | 11/17/05
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RE: Sony has been adding rootkit to...  commcastsucks | 11/17/05
Sony Had a EULA  markdoiron | 11/17/05
Sony EULA  DIMrBobSir | 11/17/05
You have to admit it was an ingenious idea,  Hugh Jass | 11/17/05
Eula not withstanding,  Update victim | 11/18/05
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NOT JUST SONY!!!!  s_gamgee | 11/20/05
The link....  s_gamgee | 11/20/05
EULA or not  TekkWise@... | 11/18/05
This is war  Boot_Agnostic | 11/18/05
War  BandwidthBandit | 11/20/05

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