Sony is now probably really, really sorry for the rootkit fiasco and probably really, really regrets its initial posture of indifference toward the world’s outrage over the company’s spyware-infected CDs. But, too late! Eliot Spitzer is now on the case.
The feared New York Attorney General has warned consumers to not buy Sony music CDs and last week dispatched investigators to buy Sony CDs at various stores. He discovered that despite Sony’s reassurance that the infected discs had been recalled, many of the CDs were still plagued by the problematic DRM technology.
“It is unacceptable that more than three weeks after this serious vulnerability was revealed, these same CDs are still on shelves, during the busiest shopping days of the year,” Spitzer said in a written statement. “I strongly urge all retailers to heed the warnings issued about these products, pull them from distribution immediately, and ship them back to Sony.”
[Note: An earlier version of this item twice misspelled Eliot Spitzer’s name as “Sprizter.” Don’t know why I didn’t catch that. I do know the correct spelling of the New York Attorney General’s name. And I wasn’t making fun of him with an intentional misspelling. Really.]
Update: Business Week’s Steve Hamm has a pretty interesting timeline of events leading up to the rootkit disaster and a summary of all the key players. It looks like Sony knew about the problem weeks before it became public and wanted to keep quiet about the problem rather than alert the millions of users with compromised computers.
Cynthia Brumfield at 9:15 AM|Comments(0)
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