Sony

A lesson in how not to treat your customers. Sony added a piece of software to a number of their cd's, which turned out to be quite a security risk for it's users. Apparently it allows any Web page that the user subsequently visits to download, install and run any code that it likes. More in this Slashdot post, Bad Day To Be Sony. A boycott has already been started.

Find out more on Extended Copy Protection at this Wikipedia page. I always try to avoid buying discs with any kind of copy protection. There's little else you can do as a consumer. And finally there's an analysis on businessweek.com, called Sony BMG's Costly Silence.