easy cash?
 

anyone remembered the root kit installed on sony protected cds?

Digital-rights advocates and consumers attorneys are preparing nearly a half dozen legal actions against the music giant. Included in the legal actions are the following -

-Chicago-based law firm Cirignani Heller Harman & Lynch may be filing a class-action law suit.
-San Francisco-based law firm Green Welling will be filing a class-action law suit against Sony to recover damages caused by consumers by the XCP CDs. The lawsuit alleges that Sony BMG has broken three Californian laws.
Italian digital rights group Associazione per la Libertá nella Comunicazione Elettronica Interattiva (ALCEI) filed a criminal complaint with that nation's Economic and Financial Police Division to investigate whether Italy's consumers were affected by the Sony BMG cloaking technology and, if so, whether the company, and any other music company, violated national laws and should be prosecuted.
-Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is collecting stores from EFF members and supporters who have purchased Sony BMG CDs that contained the XCP technology. They are considering litigation against Sony but have not made a final decision on the issue.
-New York lawyer, Scott Kamber, is planning a class-action lawsuit for all Americans affected.

Antivirus and Anti-Spyware vendors are taking action as well.

-Computer Associates has labeled the XCP1, the patch XCP1 to XCP2 and even XCP2 all as Trojans.
-Kaspersky Labs branded the XCP program spyware.
-Symantec (Norton) has label XCP as a "securityrisk".
-Sophos has released a tool which will detect the existence of the XCP technology and disable the cloaking feature. Sophos released this tool right in the middle of rumors that the unmasking tool itself may violate the DCMA.

as easy FIVE BUCKS maybe

You're right maybe if you sue them in Negeria.