At last Sony/BMG has announced that it will no longer include Rootkit with their CDs. There is a lesson to be learned for every other company who is trying to stretch the IP protection a bit too far.

That aside, I am seriously thinking that Sony has become brain-dead. This is sad for such an innovative organization which gave us the Walkman and Triniton tubes (I do not know about PSP). It began when they started clinging to ATRAC in the face of MP3 onslaught. This company has dragged its feet too wide – hardware on the oneside and content on the other. Apple could easily run between its legs with iPod.

Some of the recent corporate decisions by Sony do not bode well and sadely this may the beginning of the end of Sony. (Hope to write a detailed review about some of their management decisions sometime soon).