Sony

Nate · **Posted:** May 24th, 2006, 3:05 pm

Any of you guys here about what sony did to protect their lables? It's really sad, I saw on the news how much they were yelled at in court, it was funny. Then they had some guy from MIT talking about it all.. I guess they put spyware on their CD's if you ripped them to your computer. This exposed your personal information to sony. The settlement was pay everyone who had bought a sony CD is the last year $7.50, and give them "one" free song to download from their website. An invasion of privacy for $8? XD

Tell me what you guys think.

Adbot · **Posted:** May 24th, 2006, 3:05 pm

Rapidash · **Posted:** May 24th, 2006, 6:05 pm

7.50 per CD? Hmm..

37.50 SONY OWES ME GRRrr

kingofrogue0 · **Posted:** May 24th, 2006, 9:25 pm

They should pay $50 per CD for that.

Nate · **Posted:** May 25th, 2006, 3:07 pm

kingofrogue0 wrote:

They should pay $50 per CD for that.

Exactly what I thought.

thief18954 · **Posted:** May 25th, 2006, 4:50 pm

:-k It's like one of those things on the bottles of sodas - "you won a free song!"

Except.. You lose information..

Ranging God · **Posted:** May 26th, 2006, 11:41 am

And because of th spyware Sony put on ppl's cpmps Hackers got into ppl's comp's so much eaiser

Adbot · **Posted:** May 26th, 2006, 11:41 am

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** May 26th, 2006, 11:57 am

viewtopic.php?p=228391#228391

^^ Protecting there games to. Greedy.

Rapidash · **Posted:** May 26th, 2006, 1:04 pm

What the hell..

Anubis · **Posted:** May 30th, 2006, 2:56 am

Isn't this against the Data Protection Act?

The way I see it, unless Sony tell you before you buy the CD that if you put it into your comp - you're personal information is going to be sent to them. It's illegal.

There's no way you can decline a terms and conditions stating that if you've already bought the CD, since most shops wont allow a refund if the product has been opened/used.

Nate · **Posted:** May 30th, 2006, 5:36 am

Well all I know is about the music, luckily I have no music from sony.. but for anyone that does, bring your PC to a technition right away, if it costs you money, file a law suit to sony.