Following yesterday's rant about Sony-BMG, today they announced that they will stop making CDs that use the rootkit in question.

Good.

This follows mad pressure from just about everywhere including a direct rebuke by Stewart Baker, Department of Homeland Security's Assistant Secretary for policy:

“It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

If we have an avian flu outbreak here and it is even half as bad as the 1918 flu, we will be enormously dependent on being able to get remote access for a large number of people, and keeping the infrastructure functioning is going to be a matter of life and death and we take it very seriously.”