What the hell were you thinking… installing what basically amounts to a rootkit on a music CD?

I understand that you want to target people who download music for free… but you’ve missed them and instead hit the people who actually BUY music. You’ve also angered them (judging by the comments left on Amazon’s website).

You’ve basically unleashed a trojan on the consumer. A virus that, in some cases, breaks the operating system of the user who purchased music from you.

This action will also have a negative impact on the artists that you’ve chosen to use to pedal this poison onto the consumer. People won’t buy it. Because of the changes you’ve made, the CD (and it cant’ really be called that because it goes against the CD standard, and I understand that Pillips has banned you from displaying the “CD” logo on it), it may not even play in a home or car CD player.

I, for one, will not be purchasing any music from Sony/BMG until they cease and desist from such actions against those of us who actually support the artists by paying for music, and I encourage everyone else out there to do the same.

To Amazon.com’s credit… at least they warn you that the music CD you’re about to buy has this kind of thing on it. How many titles are affected is uncertain, but a quick google says it’s a lot.