Antivirus firms target Sony ‘rootkit’ | CNET News.com

It’s bad enough that the music industry has no qualms with preventing you from listening to the music you bought, but when they actually stoop to the level of secretly installing spyware on your machine, that’s just too far! Sony uses technology from First 4 Internet which secretly installs itself and interferes with cd-ripping even from non-protected CDs. Anyone want to start a class action suit? I’m fairly sure this software is illegal according to the DMCA. (ironic isn’t it?)