At some point Sony bought a Movie Studio in the US and a few years afterwards the company leadership started coming from their Media division instead of their Engineering division.
This was in the early 00s.
That was when Sony started enshittifying, with things like locking down their consumer devices (not just to block copying but also to do things like segment markets via region locking) and at one point they even shipped Music CDs with a PC Rootkit (the infamous “Sony Rootkit” scandal).
IMHO, Sony was maybe one of the first large companies to start enshittifying.
I’ve actually been boycotting Sony since then, so roughly for 2 decades now.
At some point Sony bought a Movie Studio in the US and a few years afterwards the company leadership started coming from their Media division instead of their Engineering division.
This was in the early 00s.
That was when Sony started enshittifying, with things like locking down their consumer devices (not just to block copying but also to do things like segment markets via region locking) and at one point they even shipped Music CDs with a PC Rootkit (the infamous “Sony Rootkit” scandal).
IMHO, Sony was maybe one of the first large companies to start enshittifying.
I’ve actually been boycotting Sony since then, so roughly for 2 decades now.
It’s awesome to meet another in the wild! I too have been boycotting Sony since they added malware to their products.
👍
There’s dozens of us!