Don't want a rootkit? Stop buying from Sony...

Posted Nov 21, 2005 18:07 UTC (Mon) by NRArnot (subscriber, #3033)
In reply to: Don't want a rootkit? Stop buying from Sony... by riel
Parent article: Sony's rootkit: an update

I can't agree strongly enough.

I will be buying nothing new from Sony in the forseeable future, unless there is no alternative manufacturer of a product that I really cannot do without.

I have a Sony laptop, a Sony DVD recorder, Sony in my car. When these need replacement, the replacements will not be made by Sony. And of course, I'll be buying as little Sony-branded music as I can.

Whatever Sony's paid spin-doctors say, the corporation won't actually listen to us until we, their former or potential customers, make a noticeable hole in the Sony corporation's bottom line. Personally, I'd like that hole to be so large that the corporation sinks -- but that's up to the rest of you.

If anyone from Sony reads this and wonders what they can do to mollify me, the answer is, probably nothing. Would you ever again buy food from a company that had been caught deliberately using urine as an undeclared ingredient? Would it make any difference that you hadn't actually eaten the polluted product?

Buy Sony last. Tell your friends.