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"In the real world, if a company knowingly created tapes that damaged playback equipment, lawsuits would go through the roof" Shortly after this, Sony delibera
by iso1210 4y ago
"In the real world, if a company knowingly created tapes that damaged playback equipment, lawsuits would go through the roof"
Shortly after this, Sony deliberatly created and distributed a virus (some code that installed itself on a computer and hid itself from the owner) on millions of CDs (the code which breached copyright law too to rub salt in the wound)
From what I can tell there was very little comeback for the people who did this other thna a "don't do it again"
- walrus01 4y agoI'm familiar with the history of that but I also 75% blame microsoft for having a windows default setting to execute as the current user, any .exe binary that's specified in the autorun.inf file in the root of a CD or DVD-ROM, when inserted into the computer (in the windows 98SE/millennium/2000 era). same issue that was still biting the US military in the ass 6, 7, 8 years later they learned that any usb flash drive inserted into a computer would autorun the binaries on it, and they resorted to putting hot glue into the USB ports of desktop PCs as a stopgap measure.