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Posted by John W. Kennedy on 03/21/07 21:55
Geena Phillips wrote:
> John W. Kennedy wrote:
>> asjbiotek@gmail.com wrote:
>>> is it ok to sound taps?
>>
>> I, for one, will never buy a Blu-Ray, or any Sony product, ever.
>>
>> They committed criminal acts in the XCP-rootkit affair that would have
>> landed any ordinary person in prison for years, but the corrupt Bush
>> administration, following its usual philosophy of "unequal justice,
>> above the Law" has decided to let them walk with a slap on the wrist.
>
> Um... Sony is a Japanese company...
....with a multibillion-dollar presence in the US, and who coolly and
deliberately committed a felony (possibly multiple felonies) in the US.
If a college student had done the same thing, even if it had been a
harmless proof of concept to demonstrate a security problem, he would
have gone to prison for years. But not one single Sony executive got so
much as a weekend at Club Fed.
This administration is coming damned close to abrogating the social
contract.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Compact is becoming contract,
Man only earns and pays."
-- Charles Williams. "Bors to Elayne: On the King's Coins"
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