Consumer Rights:
There is an interesting new story about Sony's new DRM online, and it illustrates another of the many deceptions the big media companies use to skew perception. Just like piracy had nothing to do with the RIAA's fear of digital audio tape (they were really afraid musicians would be able to create their own masters without the studios), Sony's new DRM on their music compact disks has nothing to do with piracy either; it appears to have more to do with competition from Apple.

Sony/Columbia - this is disgusting. Get over it, you made the wrong call in the portable digital music market. Take your lumps and focus on what you do well, screens and video cameras. The age of the Walkman(tm) has been replaced with the age of the iPod(tm). Many of us have never been in the market for either device, but we collect compact disks from our favorite music artists; but only those disks without your crappy DRM inhibitions (I do play my cds on my Mac frequently, using iTunes).

Update: the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an excellent web page on how to determine if your computer is impacted by the Sony XCP rootkit exploit, read more here (includes list of infected CDs).