Sony caught with pants down

The craziness with the Sony DRM infested CDs just keeps getting more and more crazy. First of all the patch that Sony released did something very interesting. It allows any webpage the infected pc visits to run code. Yes I know very cute.

"CodeSupport remains on your system after you leave Sony�s site, and it is marked as safe for scripting, so any Web page can ask CodeSupport to do things. One thing CodeSupport can be told to do is download and install code from an Internet site.

You can see a picture here that shows the spread of Sony's software.

Now if all this wasn't bad enough already, people are digging into the contents of the CDs and are finding that the DRM is shipping with LGPL software hidden behind .DAT files. You can read all about that on the link I provided. You would think that since Sony has taken such a strong stance against copyright infringement they would be more careful who they license to develop code. Hopefully someone who has contributed code to lame (one of the open source projects who's license is not being complied with) sues the pants of Sony. I doubt it will happen, but I can dream.

The Freedom to Tinker people are doing a very good job of covering this mess, so check there for a more in depth look at everything that has happened.

So Sony I am officially giving you a single digit salute, get your act together!