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Not the OP, but I think they've got plenty of precedent to fuel their caution. I'm surprised that not everyone doesn't immediately remember, when someone says "
by CWuestefeld 4y ago
Not the OP, but I think they've got plenty of precedent to fuel their caution. I'm surprised that not everyone doesn't immediately remember, when someone says "Sony", the time they silently installed a rootkit onto the PC of anyone playing one of their music CDs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
- capableweb 4y agoSo the fear is that when you connect the Walkman to your computer it'll do something similar, installing a "copy protection rootkit" in order to prevent you from transferring non-DRMed files to it? Seems farfetched to me I guess, especially if there is zero evidence of it happening. But happy to be proven otherwise. Not sure what that has to do with Android either, the "rootkit scandal" you linked is about CDs.
- CWuestefeld 4y agoNo. The fear is that Sony will do something that they think is in their own best interest, while completely ignoring the interests of their customers. It doesn't have to be a rootkit specifically, it just needs to follow their pattern of lack of interest in their own customers.
- capableweb 4y agoSo what, realistically, could they do here, if they had lack of interest for their own customers? Disable USB Mass Storage transfer functionality? Disabling being able to play non-DRMed files?
- hilbert42 4y agoSee my later comments.
- tobyhinloopen 4y agoCmon now this was 20 years ago. Anyone involved in that decision is dead, retired, gone or has learned their lesson
- hilbert42 4y agoBut their actions still live on as corporate edict. Sony, Unfortunately, is now nothing like the company we once admired.