Bush Administration to Sony: It’s your intellectual property — it’s not your computer.

Sony knew they were dead in the water when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admonished them on the CD rootkit scandal - at a Chamber of Commerce event on combating intellectual-property theft. According to Briand Krebs of the Washington Post the Department of Homeland Security’s assistant secretary for policy, Stewart Baker, made at the event “a remark clearly aimed directly at Sony and other labels”