The rootkit and the lawsuits and the recall might make Sony BMG look bad, but I doubt it will slow sales much. What it will do is make music buyers double check the label before they put the purchased disk in their computers. Sony doesn't see this as bad publicity, they're banking on the public's perception of their CD's as hazardous to computers, thereby preventing those CD's from being copied whether they actually contain XCP or not. It obviously won't prevent copies from being made alltogether, but it will cut that number by a considerable margin. In their war against piracy they've gained some ground, and they'll hold that ground until the aforementioned Windows patch is released, if ever.
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