Rootkit: Sony settles with computer owners

The row over the dangerous software Sony-BMG forced purchasers of some of the label's CDs to install on their computers has reached its legal conclusions, with the company getting off lightly: it's going to compensate anyone who can prove its malicious code damaged their machines to the tune of a whole eighty-nine pounds.

Compare that settlement with the demands Sony-BMG makes when it believes it has some sort of evidence that people have been file-sharing some of its copyrighted material - the cost of making a deleted track available on the web is claimed to be thousands of dollars; yet Sony see leaving people's personal data open to attack and theft as being worthy of only a handful of coins.

[Thanks to David Scott for the tip]

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