So infecting a large percentage of the Internet with malicious code is just the next step up. So what to do? I shall never be buying a Sony product ever again. I shall also be informing as many people as possible why, and, if I am invited to the launch of PlayStation 3 (no, I will not be buying one of those either), I shall use the opportunity to heckle the presenters.

Naturally they will have had nothing to do with this episode, but then corporations cannot have it both ways. If they are recognized as single entities by law, with rights such as freedom of speech, then they must not be surprised when people treat them as such. And if you buy a PlayStation after this, you are just part of the problem. Go on, mail me.

-- Charl Bergkamp is a systems support engineer in the Lambda Bureau, the ICT department of the Ministry of Boards, Committees and Working Groups. He can be reached at charl.bergkamp@gmail.com.