This is the sort of "free gift" that a store manager hands out to look like he's sorry without actually spending any money. Taking into account the fact that Sony is able to provide the downloads at wholesale rates (i.e. basically free), they are effectively just replacing the dangerous CD, the rest amounts to pennies per victim.

What about people who had to spend hours reinstalling servers that got root-kitted? How about some punitive damages for violating people's rights and breaking the freakin' law?!?

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