Sony BMG and its anti-p2p rep First 4 Internet have the same mentality as the entertainment and software cartels. They don’t just believe we’re dumb. They think we’re really dumb.

A member of the Big Four record label and Big Seven movie studio cartels, Sony BMG thought it had you when it loaded a secret DRM spyware application on some of its music CDs. And it would have done the same for all of its ‘product;’ if it had gotten away with it.
But it didn’t.

Within days of each other, a company, F-Secure, and an individual, Mark Russinovich at Sysinternals, independently uncovered the Sony BMG DRM stashed on the CDs.

They were the first, but they wouldn’t have been the last.

Two class actions, the discovery that there was also a version for Apple Macs and news of the first e-bug centering on Sony BMG DRMS (Digital Restriction Management Spyware) code quickly followed, and now Sony has withdrawn its polluted CDs.

But it wasn’t the on- or offline lamescream media which forced thge company into a corner. It was blogs and news sites, which had picked up the story in the first place.

Nothing is too low for the cartels, which falsely pretend to be caring corporate citizens. But to them, you’re just brain-dead, cash-cow ‘consumers’ and they’ll do literally anything to get your money.

“Sony said it had a right to stop people illegally copying music,” says the BBC, quoting a statement which says the company also intends to “re-examine all aspects” of its “content protection initiative” to make sure it continues to meet “our goals of security and ease of consumer use”.

Actually, its vaunted “content protection initiative” hasn’t come even close to doing what it’s supposed to do. Ask SunnComm and Macrovision, and now First 4 Internet, all of whom have an unbroken records of failing to deliver the goods to their gullible clients, the software and entertainment cartels.

Sony BMG says it was stopped this time by virus threats. But that’s a load of old bollocks. Blogging stopped them. Online, the word spreads, and it spreads with the speed of light.

They’re also being stopped dead with their sue ‘em all marketing strategies, but the message hasn’t yet reached their tiny brains. But they’re dinosaurs and you know what happened to dinosaurs.

Meanwhile, you don’t depend on them. They depend on you. And not merely in a financial sense.

Who keeps their computer systems operating? You do. Who writes their codes? You. Who’s building the phoney p2p apps derived from the formerly indie apps they’ve killed? You are.

They’re still treating you like they own you, lock, stock and barrel.

“Sony said it had a right to stop people illegally copying music,” adding that the halt was precautionary,” says the BBC.

Definitely stay tuned.
Via p2pnet.net