Sony to Suspend Making Antipiracy CDs

Those of you who have been in the country for the last week should already know about the whole Sony/DRM/spyware/virus debacle.

So, breaking news has it that they've agreed, at least temporarily, to lay off.

Important, but not the type of thing I'd usually blog about. Until you read further down the article.

A senior Homeland Security official cautioned entertainment companies against discouraging piracy in ways that also make computers vulnerable. Stewart Baker, assistant secretary for policy at DHS, did not cite Sony by name in his remarks Thursday but described industry efforts to install hidden files on consumers' computers.

Homeland Security? Seriously? They're in charge of the record industry now? No wonder we keep having retarded alerts. They're too busy listening to music to do their job? Cat Stevens wasn't enough of a terrorist for them, I guess. What, did they run out of libraries to terrorize? Next thing you know the'll be jumping on the telegrams to the dead bandwagon.