Does that count for anything?

Remember when your parents asked you to do something and you waited for the punishment to come before you did anything? Did you deserve any credit?

This really irritates me...

Three lawsuits were launched in Canada. One in Quebec ((English translation by Google) in November 2005. Recently, there were complaints from Ontario and British Columbia. All the moves are aimed at Sony BMG's rootkit technology as well as the MediaMax "spyware". The technology is found in music albums, as authorized by Sony BMG

These lawsuits are in addition to the ones initiated in the US.

Yes it's nice to sue and try to make things better, but I think Sony is being targetted unfairly by this. First, none of those states did anything prior to sysinternals releasing info about this. They all "waited" for this story to become big, and now they see the money train going and want to jump in before it's too late. I put "waited" in quotes because they weren't really waiting for anything.

It's akin to you walking in the street and finding a 100$ bill. Where you looking for it? Not really.

Instead of wasting everyone's time and money (by suing, by hurting Sony, by increasing the cost that we will have to pay), they should be proactive and actually start looking at all solutions on the market and find the next problem and find an industry wide solution... I don't think Sony is alone on this...

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