Monday, November 14, 2005

Boycott Sony. Remember when boycotts used to take months, even years, to organize?  Now it takes a week.  But yes.  Boycott Sony.  Boycott them for loading up CDs by respectable artists (Celine Dion not included) with evil software that could destroy your computer.  Boycott them for trying to push a license agreement (for a CD?!) that declares that the music on your CD is only yours as long as you stay in the country, as long as you don't burn it on your work computer, as long as you don't file for bankruptcy, and as long as you don't get robbed.   Seriously.  So protect yourself.  Don't buy any of the CDs that have evil copy-protection (i.e. customer-spying) software.  Better yet, don't buy any Sony CDs.  Demand they that change their evil, paranoid, pirate-fearing, devious software-planting, RIAA-shilling ways.  And don't forget the most important part of any boycott - tell Sony why you're boycotting their giant evil corporation asses.  (My suggestion:  call their toll-free number, tell them you have defective CDs, and demand a refund.)  Tell them it's not good enough to apologize for this incredible violation of trust with its customers.  They need to recall the DEFECTIVE product (every CD infected with copy-protection software), create a way to remove the crap off people's computers, and promise to never do it again.  (As it turns out, my MMJ CD doesn't have the evil rootkit software on it, but I still don't like copy-protection schemes.)  Sony needs to be punished for this.  Even Microsoft (fellow evil corporation) isn't standing by them.  This is an opportunity for consumers like us to strike a real blow, not against Sony, but against every music company and every company that decides it's all right to spy on the very customers that keep them in business.  12:36:45 PM     Speak up!  []