My “Do as we say, not as we do” award goes to… Sony.

In an attempt to prevent the masses from illegally downloading all their great music, Sony encrypts their music CD’s with spyware that installs itself on the “purchasers’” microcomputers and secretly transmits personal information about their owners back to Sony (while at the same time providing a conduit for other not so honest businessmen to slip through that same back door).  Microsoft orders them to “buzz off” and take their noise with them.