It's a Sony.—Old slogan for Sony Electronics
A Japan-based electronics
Mega Corp that created, among other things:
They make numerous diverse electronic goods, prominently including televisions, stereos, PCs, and cell phones, and game consoles. They also do
electronic components, industrial chemicals, batteries, toys, robots, banks, and life insurance. They also have their own
visual effects studio, their own
Anime studio, their own major record company with numerous labels and even their own
Anime channel co-founded with
Toei Animation,
TMS and
Sunrise. One could almost say that, like
one of their products, they only do everything
*.
It is also the current owner of
Columbia Pictures and
TriStar Pictures, which along with their record company has led the company to switch sides in
the intellectual-property war. Said record company, Sony Music Entertainment, has the dubious distinction of being the only major record company to ship a rootkit (malignant software which takes over your computer) on a music CD, all in the name of
the war on piracy.
It's worth noting that Sony Corporation
per se only does the electronics and some financial shenanigans. Most of the fingers Sony sticks in other pies are technically indepependant corporations—
Sony Computer Entertainment (games), Sony Pictures Entertainment (motion pictures), Sony Music Entertainment (music), Sony Financial Holdings, etc. That's before getting into Sony Corporation of America, Sony de Mexico, etc... There are dozens of Sony corporations in total (
The Other Wiki has a list
). One upshot of this is that Sony has been known on more than one occasion to sue "itself" when conflicts arose between, for instance, Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Corporation.
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