Questions of Product Innovation: The Sony Rootkit

Monday, October 30, 2006

The issue of the Sony Rootkit was raised in class last Friday. Read the Auntie news item here and the boing boing roundup here.

At 10:50 AM, Felonious Thelonius said...: Hiya all

Interestingly, Sony is still at it with the control strategy, viz their action against grey market importer LikSang, forcing it into bankruptcy.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/24/sony_assassinates_am.html

The issue which would be interesting is what the serious financial press has to say on the subject. Sony's karma is onviously crap, the PS3 is in trouble and they seem to want to go around alienating their customers. On the other hand, market data has them trading around the middle of their twelve month spread.

The questions then seem to include, what are the markets smoking? How long before we see their karma reflected in prices? what's keeping the price up? (It can't just be the bravia, can it?)

FWIW I'm thoroughly in the boycott SONY camp, and have been since the f*****g ATRAC copy protection ruined a recording session, four years ago. To me they aren't worth the hassle!