Sony’s covert operations go all wrong

December 8th, 2005

EFF sues Sony BMG
ConsumerAffairs.com : The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG, demanding that the company repair the damage done by the First4Internet XCP and SunnComm MediaMax software it included on over 24 million music CDs.

Via Darknet

We posted about this recently on this blog

and if you want to get deep here is the EFF account

Here is Ben Hammersley view on 8 Ideas That Will Revolutionize the 21st Century (and blogging isn’t one of them). Via Gaping Void

1. Information wants to be free (vs. copyright).
2. Zero distance (vs. borders).
3. Mass amateurisation (vs.censorship).
4. More is much more. (vs. network blocking).
5. True names (vs. idendity cards & databases ).
6. Viral behaviour (vs. more network blocking).
7. Everything is personal (vs. everything is trackable).
8. Ubiquitous computing (no privacy).

a review of Ben Hammersley speech at Les Blogs read here

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