The SysInternal blog continues to report on this PR catastrophe.

Besides the obvious question of why there’s not a universal uninstall link, the error also begs the question of how the Sony site knows that the uninstall link is for a different computer? For that matter, why do you have to install an ActiveX control just to fill out a web form and why does that form have to be filled out “using the computer where the software is currently installed”? The email, web page and ActiveX control offer no hints.

It's just an ongoing saga of Sony behaving in a way that seems incongruous with a company that demands the utmost 'ethical' judgment from its consumers and it makes for great coffee fodder. Poor Sony seems to have done nothing to secure its intellectual property rights with this software submarine of the consumer's choice to duplicate their CDs. Keep in mind that anyone using a Linux operating system likely never even noticed the "protective" code.

Lesson: Like I've said before, people will appreciate a distribution mechanism and company that just takes one's money and delivers them a service. This was a huge PR blunder for Sony amongst the sophisticated tech consumer marketplace. You know, we all talk.

Update: It appears the sharks smell blood.

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