The call is being made http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,69559,00.html?tw=rss.TOP to boycott Sony, at least as far as CD purchases.
I find it ironic that twenty years ago, it was the Sony Betamax that was the new technology that was terrifying the movie studios, to the extent that the case was heard by the Supreme Court, who ruled in favor of the new technology.
Now, Sony is in the music, movie, and gaming market, both as a producer of hardware, and as a content provider.
Now the are the terrified ones. Along with their buddies in the RIAA and MPAA, they are lobbying our elected leaders (at least in the US) to change the laws to protect their business model, a model that many say is outdated in the age of digital content.
The lengths that Sony and their bedfellows will go to shows just how much respect they have for the consumer. None.
Somewhere Music/Movie Studio/Sony execs are wetting their pants with excitement at the prospect of milking the buying public out of a charge every time comeone wants to listen to a song or movie they have already purchased. And if you don't like it, why they can always sue you with their little army of salivating lawyers.
These movie/music execs have been painting their own customers as "pirates" and criminals, using the courts as the means to carry out their bullying tactics.
It looks like their tactics are backfiring on them. Let's hope that it sends a clear message, if not the Sony and their kind, then at least to our legislators.
