cyrnel

It's much broader than just the RIAA, music, or even entertainment.
Welcome to Trusted Computing. The TCGroup and their Trusted Platform Modules restrain your devices (at the lowest level) to an industry controlled sandbox. The IP boundaries can be expanded as they see fit, before or after your purchase, and you have no say. It's a bit like the worst shrink-wrap license but enforced from the hardware layer on up.

In this case Sony (a TCG member) installed a rootkit as an early, crude, example of what will be implemented in the hardware of your computers and other digital devices, the operating system, and anything that wants to interact with them.

Consider how the fight over Open Document relates to these closed systems. Not something TCGroup members want to see.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195