Comfortable Disappearance

My recent recap of the recording industries moronic business practices included another post of mine about Sony hacking your computer with their latest and “greatest” Digital Rights Management (DRM) software. The software installed a rootkit, which hides at the base of your computer, making it nearly impossible to get rid of.

Well, a class action suit was filed against Sony (I can’t believe I’m actually in favor of a class action). Purchasers of one of the more than 20 albums that had that had the rogue software on it…

…can file a claim and receive certain benefits, such as a nonprotected replacement CD, free downloads of music from that CD and additional cash payments.

Sweet. If anyone bought one of these albums, I strongly urge you to file a claim according to the terms of the agreement (PDF).