RIAA's president praises Sony's "responsible" tactics

As if Sony couldn't make this DRM rootkit situation come off as any worse in the public eye, the president of the RIAA has piled it on by attempting to reduce the impact of the rootkit to nothing more than "a security vulnerability of which they were unaware." As anyone who's been following BoingBoing's timeline of events knows, this rootkit causes just a bit more damage to a PC than your run-of-the-mill 'security vulnerability' – the rootkit opens up a significant security hole in Windows, and even disables CD/DVD drivers if you try to remove it. Let's also not forget that these rootkit CD's can also install kernel extensions that act as spyware on OS X – although fortunately you have to go out of your way to actually run the OS X software on the CD accomplish this. (in other words: don't do it).

Check out the full transcript of the press conference Cary Sherman – everyone's favorite RIAA president – gave covering all things digital music, Sony and the more important ramifications out of all this: DRM.

[via Slashdot]