Perhaps his most important point is that that settlement will only have effect in the U.S., not, for example, in Canada.
This particular suit settlement would require Sony not only to recall all the affected CDs, but also to stop using the software that implemented the rootkit and to disavow the relevant portions of the EULAs. It even would require free music downloads, which would be one of the things Sony was trying to counter with the DRM in the first place. Continue reading