Sony's EULA is worse than their rootkit

Sony is not doing well dealing with the "virus" their music CD installs. Virus isn't the right word, but it's what the non-techie will understand. The right word is rootkit and it's a piece of software, if you will, installed into the roots of your computer that is very hard to remove and could be a hole virus writers use as well as cause problems for your computer. A Sony exec responded to criticism about this by saying if you don't know what a rootkit is why do you care? I don't know how Ebola kills you but I'd care if I caught it.

So here's an article that says Sony's EULA is worse than their rootkit. The list of things the EULA prevents (moving out of the country, playing music at work, using backups if you're robbed, using it as background music for a slideshow) is absurd. Maybe someday we'll change things so that when you buy things you own them, you don't just license them.