Sony Receives Overwhelming Amount of "Hate Mail"

Just saying Sony's Anti-copying strategies didn't exactly go according to the plan would be a huge understatement, when the situation looks more like a game of Russian Roulette. It all started by launching these spyware elements, only to worsen the situation by finding that the XCP technology provided by First4Internet and included in Sony music CDs enables hackers to camouflage dangerous malware on victims' computers. That wasn't the half of this story since it continued with Sony announcing it will remove all "spyware branded" CDs from stores as soon as possible, but they are still available now, three weeks after the company promised the opposite.

As it was expected, Sony is now facing a load of charges and has been sued left and right. The situation is pretty tricky even for the second largest music label in the world, which could end up not surviving this spyware episode. The damage was already done by selling 24 million copies of 50 different music albums with the XCP software secretly installed.

It's a bit ironic to find out that Sony released recently two albums titled 'Invisible Invasions' by Coral and 'Suspicious Activity' by the band Bad Plus. The titles alone describe best what the company has done to its customers.