I've been following with interest the debacle of Sony BMG distributing CDs containing a rootkit. Note that they have tentatively settled the first round of suits, as reported in this Yahoo! News headline. Upon first reading about the rootkit on Mark Russinovich's Sysinternals blog, I immediately checked my collection to see if I'd bought any of the offending discs. I had one on order, and promptly cancelled the order. I'm sure I wasn't the only consumer to do so!
I can't help but wonder what the heck they were thinking! Did they know they were distributing a rootkit? Did they really expect that their spyware wouldn't be discovered? Did they not comprehend that they were using spyware? and finally--Was it worth it? (I bet I know the answer to that last question.)
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