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sony's true nature revealed! ouch!

cabal001cabal001 Member Posts: 166
in Off-Topic Discussion

arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080331-sony-bmgs-hypocrisy-company-busted-for-using-warez.html

arguing with a corporate fanboi is like teaching special education.
even if you teach him something...at the end of the day he's still retarded.

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  • ComanComan Member UncommonPosts: 2,178

    I REALLY doubt this is true, well it might be that a few software items might be illigal duo to failing administration of the software, but an big company like Sony would not have 47% of there software pirated.

  • CaesarsGhostCaesarsGhost Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 2,136

    This isn't the same Sony that makes games... this is their Music Division.

    I'm sure Sony's game division gets audited for software regularly (I know all the game companies I know do... and they're far smaller then SOE), and are completely legit.

    It's basically another company.  So I think this belongs in Off Topic... lest it gets attacked by the SWG peoples.

    - CaesarsGhost

    Lead Gameplay and Gameworld Designer for a yet unnamed MMO Title.
    "When people tell me designing a game is easy, I try to get them to design a board game. Most people don't last 5 minutes, the rest rarely last more then a day. The final few realize it's neither fun nor easy."

  • renierrenier Member Posts: 106

    How can blame an entire company for some employees using pirated software?

    Everybody and their mother use pirated software. Who gives a shit..

  • SkollSkoll Member Posts: 442

     

    Originally posted by renier


    How can blame an entire company for some employees using pirated software?
    Everybody and their mother use pirated software. Who gives a shit..

    The company getting pirated gives a shit, also the people who got their computers fucked before by Sony BMG. When a company puts malware just to prevent pirating and is then found of doing the very same thing they went to extreme measures to prevent...well they deserve all the bashing they'll probably get. Damn hypocrites. If you don't know what i am talking about heres a nice informative link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal

     



    For the rest of their strange decisions check under controversies in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony.

     

  • JsteinerJsteiner Member Posts: 217
    I think that an employee of a company is a representative of that company, and that anything an employee does that company is responsible for. So even if one employee ripped a program and used it in the name of a company, that company is still liable.

    The ultimate solution to every problem: more space marines.

  • EnigmaEnigma Member UncommonPosts: 11,384

    Originally posted by renier


    How can blame an entire company for some employees using pirated software?
    Everybody and their mother use pirated software. Who gives a shit..
    If you had one of those computers that were affected by Sony's malware a couple years ago to prevent piracy you would have given a shit.

    Plus, a company that lobbies with the government to pass stringent anti piracy laws and then has pirated software themselves is a unique situation that goes above the norm of "everybody and their mother use pirated software."

    People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.

  • EnigmaEnigma Member UncommonPosts: 11,384

     

    Originally posted by Jsteiner

    I think that an employee of a company is a representative of that company, and that anything an employee does that company is responsible for. So even if one employee ripped a program and used it in the name of a company, that company is still liable.

    yup

     

    and it was one more than one SONY BMG pc too, it was on four of their servers. SERVERS lol

    People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.

  • KhuzarrzKhuzarrz Member Posts: 578

    This just made my month.

     

    Thanks ;)

  • AelfinnAelfinn Member Posts: 3,857

     

    Originally posted by renier


    How can blame an entire company for some employees using pirated software?
    Everybody and their mother use pirated software. Who gives a shit..

    Believe it or not, but there are a few of us honest users out there. We're a "dying" breed I'll admit, but I for one have never touched any kind of pirated media and never will.

     

    There is a term called honor, perhaps you have heard of it. The meaning of it varies depending on who and when you ask, but it involves doing the right thing, whether or not there are consequenses otherwise.

    No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
    Hemingway

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