"The Magnificence of the Disaster" — What a great name for a paper about Sony's DRM-enforcing virus.
Written by Aaron Perzanowski and Deirdre Mulligan, it charts the company's decision to secretly install illegal software on its customers' computers, and how it ultimately killed sales of its own products as a result. Cory Doctorow has an excerpt up. Read the whole thing for yourself in PDF format.
How Sony BMG lost its mind and rootkitted its CDs -- prepublication law paper [BoingBoing]
