So I'm sure most of you are aware of the Sony-BMG rootkit fiasco. If you're not, you should be. First of all, the CDs have been around for about eight months. The president of their global digital business division has gone on record stating "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"

Well, there are a couple reasons to care. Trojan horses have been spotted using the DRM software, companies are now reviewing their policies on personal CDs at work, and even World of Warcraft wasn't safe.

Sony is temporarily removing the rootkit DRM from new CDs, presumably from the bad PR and now class-action lawsuits from California (with more to follow).