Sony should have been sued for more.
Just my 2c.

100 euros for 10 hours spent restoring lost data

Sounds like he did back up his data but it took 10 hours to load it back in.

100 euros for 10 hours spent restoring lost data

Sounds like he did back up his data but it took 10 hours to load it back in.

20 mil EU ffs. make’em feel something if you plan on pinching them pigssssss

2: In what amounts to a slap on the wrist, Japan’s Free Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered Sony to stop the practice of pressuring Wholesalers and retailers to sell it’s PS2 at specific prices, a practice known in the US as “price fixing.”

3: Posted on Mar-13-06 Sony BMG, Universal Music, Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and EMIA class action lawsuit has been filed against major music labels for allegedly attempting to keep the online music market from emerging and allegedly conspiring to fix and maintain music prices.

4: Published October 31, 2006 DOJ Investigating Sony for RAM Price-fixing

5: November 21, 2005 Sony accused of leading price-fix cartel to stop cheap deals on web.

6: 31 Jan 05 Two Chinese DVD manufacturers (Wuxi Multimedia and Orient Power Digital
Technology) have filed a class-action lawsuit against Philips and Sony. Also LG
and Pioneer are possibly sued. The Chinese companies claim that the
electronics giants have been involved in price fixing, conspiracy to monopolize
and have violated at least five other anti-trust laws. The
lawsuit was filed in a court in California.

7: November 16, 1993 Giant Sony Electronics Corp. recently told retailers in the Washington area that they should not list prices on Sony television sets in a local consumer publication, according to several local retailers. Sony says its actions were legal, but some retailers say the powerful company has threatened to cut off deliveries of its products if they list low prices in Checkbook Bargains. That, they say, amounts to price fixing. “It’s price fixing, 100 percent price fixing,” said Tony Patane, who owns two ApplianceLand Etc. stores locally and was among the retailers Sony representatives talked to.

8: July 31, 2007 Sony faces another PS3 lawsuit:

This is just a few that were easy to Google but enough that I can’t support them with my wallet.

Right on target.

Compare that to a soccer mom sharing some music with no intent to make a profit and no criminal intent getting fined a couple million US$.

Justice has become a commodity for the rich to expensive for the common man.

…Sony came of the hook easy, they should have been
slapped with a way bigger fine…

No, they should have been convicted of felony computer fraud and abuse.
Sony executives should be doing jail time — at 10 years per offense,
since (according to Kaspersky) Federal Interest computers were involved.

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Join the hundreds of millions of us…

“Piracy” (aka sharing) is the answer.

a smaller claim from a consumer/victim would get the judge on his side more than a six-zeroes behind a number would do.

That’s actually breaking the law…well, I mean, corruption.

1. buy rootkitted CDs
2. sue Sony for $$$$ or €€€€
3. profit

finally got rid of the ??? part

Stop impersonating Reasoned Mind, he’d never say something that inane.

As to the 1200 euros, that seems reasonable to cover all the resulting damages.

I’d have gone a little further and claimed $40 and hour (so about 3000 euros), but that’s alright as well.

wow…how can you justify messing up other peoples computers for your own gain.

Nice to see that the rootkit someone else designed and SONY stole was used for some kinda of financial gain.

“Sony was simply trying to defend its assets and was a little misguided,”

A little misguided?! Hahaha dude, put down that crackpipe … seriously, your last remaining neuron is aching for some degree of logic. How in the fisted f*cking Christ was that “a little misguided?” You, sir, are a COMPLETE moron. Period.

“just because they are a multi-billion dollar company doesn’t mean they cant make mistakes too..”

What “mistake,” cretin? It was bloody deliberate … this was no error, so don’t dodge the issue … uunless you’re trying to tell us that $ony is as clueless as you. Surely, a pious entity such as the almighty $ony can’t possibly make a mistake…

“When will all you people realize that a little virus is a small sacrifice needed to ensure future profits.”

Yeah, for the next million years I suppose… And when will you, IMBECILE, realize that $ony HAD NO RIGHT TO PULL THIS STUNT? “A small sacrifice” @ the expense of PAYING CUSTOMERS is perfectly fine, right Reasoned $hill? Screw the customers as long as $ony continues to squeeze every drop of blood. And you STILL wonder why people “pirate” … truly amazing!

“I for one have no problem installing root kits on my machine as I know I am helping Sony reach its full potential in market share.”

Naturally, since you’re probably on their payroll … in your eyes, $ony can do no wrong. Just between us … what are they paying you for infesting TF with their propaganda? I hope they’re offering a decent profit-sharing plan … Lord knows, your daily efforts are worth every peso… <3

ROFL…

The guy does seem like an idiot. I mean, he ran the CD on THREE other computers after the first one warned him that it was a rootkit? LMFAO….

thanks dudes

@46: That’s not the point. Sony shouldn’t have put a rootkit on the discs anyway. That rootkit also opened up vulnerabilities in the system that other viruses could exploit.

Ok yea, I know its Sony and down with them and all, but still the actions of this guy was totally moronic. I mean, calling a tech about a virus warning??? Still even it did give you problems…um ever hear of BACKING UP your hardrive?

Well, figures. He’s self employed which means he was too much a loser to make it through any higher education school. A total loser.

And of course SomeGuy and ReasonedMind will show up with some sort of faulty logic, a moot defense, and tell us all to “get a life”.”

We were all expecting that, but we were expecting a better trolling from ReasonedMind! hahaha what he said was so retarded that I’m still laughing now! He must have smoked some pot lmao this time he did not “reason” at all!

Hey SomeGuy it’s your turn now! Come on, come on here and entertain us with some retarded comment you too!

hahaha that was too funny! Hey, if you want some viruses I got some very nice websites to tell you! hahahaha oh my goodness.

That was priceless. Come on, you can troll better than that! hahaha my goodness, I’m still laughing.

You are an imbecile, and a fascist.

OMG… i lol’d sooo bad, Reasoned Mind, typically your trolling could be considered the other side of the argument but that’s just retarded.

It’s so clearly illegal what Sony did, anyone would be pissed as hell if they got virus let alone by a massive world wide coperation.

First you say it’s a mistake and next you say it’s totally justified, make up your trolling mind.

You would happily install your rootkits?, alright then i’m sure if you asked Sony nicely they would be all too happy to supply you with one, even if they manage to over price it as with everything.

Macs suck, simply because of the pricing, however building your own Hackintosh fixes that and so those are pretty awesome…

Linux, apart from the bad multi monitor support, and through a few searches, no Windows 7 taskbar clone, would easily win the top spot for me. Importunately those things I have now become dependent on XD

As for this, when I read the amounts I was really surprised, Sony easily deserve to pay a huge amount more to every individual affected – especially the bloke whose code they ‘stole’ as they often put it…

Aww well at least we can be happy with their current financial failure anyway =]