Pending Califorrnia Class-Action Lawsuit Coming Against Sony?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

It appears that there is a strong possibility that there may
be a U.S class-action suit against Sony, as well.

Via C|Net News.

[snip]

Sony rightly came under fire last week from programmers and Internet users for injecting an undetectable 
copy-prevention utility into Microsoft Windows when certain CDs are inserted.

Now the lawyers are taking aim, too. Robert Green, a partner at the San Francisco firm of Green Welling, says he's 
readying a class action lawsuit against Sony.

"We're still investigating the case and talking to different people about what happened to them," Green said on Friday. 
He plans to argue that under California law, if you buy a copy-protected CD from a music store, you should be informed 
that a spyware-like utility will be implanted on your hard drive.

[snip]

http://news.com.com/Why%20they%20say%20spyware%20is%20good%20for%20you/2010-1071_3-5934150.html

- ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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