So the geeks are up in arms about Sony’s ill advised Root-Kit-as-DRM approach to hoarding their treasures. If by any chance you’ve missed any of the saga I’m not about to rehash it here - there’s a timeline of the whole debacle on Wilcohol.com.

Mighty though the geek hordes are we should really be thinking of a way to get everyone else - normal people fired up about this. Otherwise the danger is that it’ll all blow over in a couple of weeks and then before we know it they’ll be back with something equally intrusive along with a bunch of spin to explain how it reduces the risk of cancer, promotes democracy and involves no cruelty to animals.

To that end I’ve knocked up a T shirt design (find V1.0 on Cafepress) which I hope might prompt questions that will allow the wearer to explain why we shouldn’t be buying Sony’s products right now.

Disclosure: if you buy a shirt from that site I’ll get a couple of bucks. I’m quite happy though for people just to take the design and use it. The artwork is here if anyone wants it. Or better yet remix that design or produce one of your own. If you do tell me about it.

Update: Cory Doctorow has a piss boiling timeline of the whole thing over on BoingBoing.

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