Sony Begins Shipping PCs With Green Dam In China 90
Dotnaught writes "Sony is now shipping computers in China with Green Dam installed, in advance of the Chinese government's July 1 deadline. But the company is disclaiming responsibility for any damage caused by the Web filtering software. Documents posted by Hong Kong-based media studies professor Rebecca MacKinnon also suggest that the Chinese government is considering similar filtering requirements for mobile phones."
China following Iran's lead (Score:3, Interesting)
Or rather freaking out because they see what is happening in Iran and trying to set up a way to lock down any possible forms of dissent (even more than they already have).
I wonder whether the US government (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I wonder whether the US government (Score:3, Interesting)
I wonder whether the US government will call for a bar on use of Sony within government.
I called for that bar after the CD Rootkit... And then again after the Secure USB rootkit. Now this. I am almost afraid to see how they top it.
Apple Computers? (Score:3, Interesting)
This brings up a interesting situation though. Is there a version of Green Dam for every OS, or will China authorize different web filtering software on other OSes?
That's irrelevant (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:I wonder whether the US government (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm quite curious if Sony has any liability here. The outcry has been pretty public, so it will be hard for Sony to say they were unaware of the claims of ownership by third parties. Does that make Sony's distribution of the software (presumably without permission of the people who had their code used in Green Dam) willful violation of copyright?
Re:I wonder whether the US government (Score:3, Interesting)
I called for that bar after the CD Rootkit... And then again after the Secure USB rootkit. Now this. I am almost afraid to see how they top it.
As a victim of XCP, I can't figure out two things:
The "flamebait" mod doesn't annoy me, my karma is solid. It just puzzles me.