Ye-Haw: Texas AG Announces Lawsuit Against Sony

The Texas Attorney General announced that the state of Texas is suing Sony with one of its anti-spyware laws because of the Sony CD rootkit shenanigans, I've written about earlier. At $100,000 per violation, this could be quite expensive for Sony, since upwards of half a million rooted PCs are estimated to be out in the wild. I never thought I'd be happy to hear about a case the state of Texas was bringing, but here it is! California and I believe New York are also engaging in legal action against Sony because of the rootkit. [article]