Sony DRM Installed Even When EULA Declined

HikingStick writes "News.com is reporting that the Texas attorney general is expanding the allegations against Sony. It seems the software would install even if users declined the EULA. From the article: 'The Texas attorney general said on Wednesday that he added a new claim to a lawsuit charging Sony BMG Music Entertainment with violating the state's laws on deceptive trade practices by hiding 'spyware' on its compact discs ... The new charges brought by Abbott contend that MediaMax software used by Sony BMG to thwart illegal copying of music on CDs violated state laws because it was downloaded even if users rejected a license agreement.'"

Heh.

[jacobcaz]

By clicking "Agree" below, you agree to the terms of this EULA. By clicking "Decline" below, you agree to the terms of this EULA.

[ AGREE ] [ DECLINE ]

If only...

[Anonymous Coward]

Now if only the death penalty in Texas applied to corporations...

I have to ask.......

[stunt_penguin]

Is anyone surprised?

*Wind howling*
*Dogs barking in the distance*
*Tumbleweed passes*
*Chuch bell tolls in the next town*

No I didn't think so either.

Lawsuit

[Council]

Sony is complaining that although they declined the offer to be sued, the Texas AG is still pursuing the case.

Re:It's only fair

[Izmir Stinger]

End User Licence Assumption

Hah! :)

[Concern]

Egregious Unbelievable Lawyer Audacity

Does this ever end?

[SmallOak]

Each time I think I Sony could not have made this any worst, something like this comes up. I fully expect to hear that if you run the software backwards it says something satanic.

Obligatory Old Joke

[eosp]

Person: "Did you hear if you play your Windows CD backwards it plays Satanic music?"

Me: "Oh that's nothing. If you play it forward it installs Windows."

Re:It's even funnier than this...

[Kelz]

No no its even funnier! Since this is current music, the catfood was actually poison!

Don't look at the cat!

[mmell]

For right now, it's <blink>not</blink> dead.

Re:It's even funnier than this...

[eyeball]

Epilogue: lawyers organize a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit against the cat food company. They get the billions of dollars, and you get a coupon for more cat food.

Wrong disaster

[SeanDuggan]

First of all, very amusing use of bold text.

Remember this is almost a bait and switch, the people bought a Celine Deon album and got the DRM disaster along with it.
Right. They were looking for a musical disaster, not a computer based one...

Greedo shoots first?

[Anonymous Coward]

[ AGREE ] [ $sys$'I' DECLINE $sys$'my right to decline, so go ahead and install your sweet spyshit' ]

Re:It's even funnier than this...

[s4ck]

Don't you know cat's have nine lives?

Simply format and re-install feline home edition OS!

EULA must stand for

[MECC]

EULA: End User Loses Always

Re:Criminal Tresspass

[Anonymous Coward]

next time ? creepy

Re:Corporate Anarchy

[mattsucks]

Tyler? Is that you?

You KNOW you just broke the first two rules, right?

Re:Criminal Tresspass

[Anonymous Coward]

girl guides ... (who) ... leave a paint bomb in your lobby

Hmmmm. Girl guides who deserve a spanking.

A good, kinky start.

Tell us more.

Re:Criminal Tresspass

[dr_dank]

I run a bar and decide to get some live music, so I call up a group of musicians. A popular and very well known band, of course, I don't want to drive my patrons out. They tell me "sure, we'll come and play, just give us some money." So I send them a payment, and the day of the performance, they show up with a 50 page contract. "Just sign this and we'll be set". I look over it, and I see among it's provisions that they're going to firebomb the stage at the end of the show. I give them the contract back and tell them no.

Then they firebomb the stage.

Moral of the story: Don't hire Gwar to play at your bar.

Re:Criminal Tresspass

[GlassUser]

Man turns around to find the stranger at the door has already moved his shit into his house. Does this not constitute tresspassing?

Not only, in Texas it's an invitation to kill them without further provocation.

If only it applied to computers too.