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Sony wasted several gigs of the very small (32g to 120g) and very expensive ssds of the time with 2 copies of a Spider Man 3 movie pre-loaded onto several diffe

Sony wasted several gigs of the very small (32g to 120g) and very expensive ssds of the time with 2 copies of a Spider Man 3 movie pre-loaded onto several different laptops. One copy in the normal installed fs, another copy in the recovery partition. And you couldn't even watch the movie unless you also paid to unlock it. You could delete the normal copy if you even knew it was there and then also used a disk usage util to FIND the actual file. But you couldn't do anything about the copy in the recovery image except delete the recovery partition and basically wipe & repartition the drive and do your own fresh install.

pstuart 9mo ago
And somebody probably got a fat bonus for that shovelware.
to11mtm 9mo ago
... That is the most Sony thing ever lol
- chihuahua 9mo ago
  Indeed. I don't know how Sony could top this, except possibly by also suing everyone.
  - einsteinx2 9mo ago
    Shipping rootkits on their music CDs?
    - BobbyTables2 9mo ago
      Funny how people seem to have forgotten that.
      - eblume 9mo ago
        I've sworn off Sony products - well, as much as one can do so - for the past, what, 20 years? - because of that. It's kind of funny to me because I don't usually have a high opinion of "wallet activism", but one day when I was 20 I found out I had a rootkit installed on my computer by Sony and now they are _dead to me_.
        Brian_K_White 8mo ago
        I still hate that they got away with deleting my linux partition on my PS3. That was a completely useless instance of linux and I think it was only ever done to get around some kind of tax or tarrif on game systems vs generic computers, but those are both beside the point. When I gave them the money, I no longer controlled the money. It remained and still remains fully functional for them after that and I did not get to reach into their bank accounts and remove part of it or even just control what they can and can't spend it on. They got 100% of everything expected out of an exchange of ownership. And they also got to retain partial control of the PS3! What a great gig!

pstuart 9mo ago

And somebody probably got a fat bonus for that shovelware.

to11mtm 9mo ago

... That is the most Sony thing ever lol

chihuahua 9mo ago
Indeed. I don't know how Sony could top this, except possibly by also suing everyone.
- einsteinx2 9mo ago
  Shipping rootkits on their music CDs?
  - BobbyTables2 9mo ago
    Funny how people seem to have forgotten that.
    - eblume 9mo ago
      I've sworn off Sony products - well, as much as one can do so - for the past, what, 20 years? - because of that. It's kind of funny to me because I don't usually have a high opinion of "wallet activism", but one day when I was 20 I found out I had a rootkit installed on my computer by Sony and now they are _dead to me_.
      - Brian_K_White 8mo ago
        I still hate that they got away with deleting my linux partition on my PS3. That was a completely useless instance of linux and I think it was only ever done to get around some kind of tax or tarrif on game systems vs generic computers, but those are both beside the point. When I gave them the money, I no longer controlled the money. It remained and still remains fully functional for them after that and I did not get to reach into their bank accounts and remove part of it or even just control what they can and can't spend it on. They got 100% of everything expected out of an exchange of ownership. And they also got to retain partial control of the PS3! What a great gig!