Sony and CDs

The copy-protection software is "an important tool to protect our intellectual property rights and those of our artists", said Sony just before getting caught with code from at least five open source projects in said software.

If somebody wrote a book or movie about a multinational corporation that fucks up so badly people would say that this is not plausible and nobody is that stupid. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

One thing that keeps amazing me is that the media keeps calling those things "CD"s even though they aren't. I realize that a lot of people call all the music discs of particular size CDs, but shouldn't media know better? ("Toimittajat ei tajua sitäkään mitä ihmiset", comments a friend.)

Sony's EULA calls it a "CD product", the difference between a CD and a CD product apparently being the same as between meat and meat product. This document is very interesting and demands that the user get rid of "CD product" and all the music on it before moving to another country or filing for bankrupcy (I shit you not).