Bloggers Break Sony
As a follow up to the recent postings about the whole Sony-CD-DRM-Rootkit Fiasco, I’ve come across an article that explains the roll the “blogosphere” has had in getting Sony to truly “fess-up” on the severity of the issue.
The article’s main point is that if it wasn’t for the constant barrage of negative (and true, mind you) information being produced by the bloggers, Sony would be able to produce a sanitized press release, let the major news outlets give a quick blurb about it, then continue on with their draconian DRM-laden business practices.
I know that bloggers don’t tend to get very much cred for supplying real news. Granted, most bloggers are just jokers like me blabbering about inane personal things or posting pictures of their cat, but there are a lot of serious bloggers out there doing real journalism in a very professional manner.
I believe that the rise of the blogosphere is a direct result of media consolidation. When only a handful of companies in the world get to produce what we see as news, you tend to get a very myopic world-view. It is refreshing to see that the populous at large can still band together and get information out to the (internet savvy) public.
Here’s the story for reference.