Mark over at Sysinternals made the following post recently, Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far. On one hand I’m not surprised in the slightest, music executives have proven themselves in the past to be some of the planet’s stupidest and greediest wastes of carbon to exist. However, it really is disheartening to see the continued criminalization of the consumer go on like this. This type of DRM system punishes the average user not to mention trashing their PC in the process and I will go so far as to say that the company that rights this software and the companies that implement it are no better than the phishers and virus writers out there. My advice? Buy independent music and use free software and tell Sony and First 4 Internet where they can shove their warez.