Sony is secretly installing a rootkit on customer's PCs as a hairbrained DRM measure, and they're getting away with it. If it was a 14 year old kid who wrote and propagated a rootkit, you can be sure that he would be branded as a black-hat criminal hacker and lawyers would be ruining his life right now, but the same standards don't apply to corporations in bed with the RIAA and MPAA.

A bobble-headed Sony exec interviewed by NPR:
"Most people don't know what a root kit is, so why should they care about it?" has to be the most idiotic statement I've heard this year outside of politics.

Some background on Sony's cynical attempt at user control is here.