Chris Gulker, The Coverup is the Crime:

Unlike Cyveillance, Sony only uses this reprehensible technique on paying customers: so let’s shoot the guys who are buying our stuff? Am I alone in thinking these guys are not serving shareholder interests well? Hack the paying customers and make it hard for them to hear the CD they purchased? Yikes. It’s easier, and much smarter, to steal the music, than buy it, if your purchased CD makes your CD player, and possibly your whole computer, unusable.