Lack's
Sony BMG: New Software Patch Works
Forbes - USA
LONDON - If you look at CD piracy
and computer hacking issues like a grazed knee that needs dressing, Sony
BMG's efforts to apply band-aids now look like an ...
Sony
BMG releases infected media
Eastern
Echo - Ypsilanti,Michigan,USA
This isn't just in your imagination;
Sony BMG Music Entertainment released 52 different
titles,
millions of copies of each album, containing a program called ...
Sony
BMG spyware and Bill C-60
p2pnet.net
- Ontario,Canada
p2p news / p2pnet: There's no chance of
the Sony BMG rootkit DM spyware debacle going away. It
will
echo loudly down many corridors ...
Sony
BMG recalls CDs with spyware
Detroit
Free Press - United States
Sony BMG, a record
label with almost 22 percent of the global market in CD sales, has
admitted
to hiding potentially dangerous anti-piracy software inside ...
Sony
BMG Recalls Spyware CDs
Spotlighting
News - USA
Sony BMG admitted it was hiding potentially
dangerous "anti-piracy" software inside people's computers
with their XCP virus-like program. ...
Inquiry
Links Top Sony Execs to Knowledge of Payola Practice
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
By Charles
Duhigg, Times Staff Writer. When Sony BMG Music
Entertainment,
the nation's second-largest record company, settled with New York
Atty. Gen. ...
Sony BMG labels mix their brass
International Herald
Tribune, France - Dec 2, 2005
Even
as Sony and Bertelsmann haggle about who should be the chief executive
of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, their jointly owned music company, the
venture is ...
Another sour note hits Sony Records
Variety
(subscription) -
Just
two days after Charlie Walk was named president of Epic Records, the
Los Angeles Times has uncovered evidence that suggests Walk and his
boss, Don Ienner ... |
Hitmakers Implicated in 'Pay for Play' Plans
Chicago Tribune, United
States -
Investigators
looking into the corruption charges found evidence against two Sony BMG
senior executives, sources say. By Charles Duhigg. ...
Hitmakers Implicated in 'Pay for Play' Plans
Los Angeles
Times, CA - Dec 4, 2005
Investigators
looking into the corruption charges found evidence against two Sony BMG
senior executives, sources say. By Charles Duhigg, Times Staff Writer. ...
|
Probe links top Sony executives to payola info
China Post, Taiwan -
By
Charles Duhigg Los Angeles Times. When Sony BMG Music Entertainment,
the nation's second-largest record company, settled with ...
Sony BMG recalls CDs with spyware
Detroit Free
Press, United States -
BY
SEAN PICCOLI. Sony BMG, a record label with almost 22 percent of the
global market in CD sales, has admitted to hiding potentially ...
|
Sony
BMG Recalls Spyware CDs
Spotlighting News -
Sony
BMG admitted it was hiding potentially dangerous "anti-piracy" software
inside people's computers with their XCP virus-like program. ...
|
Another
lawsuit filed against Sony
Afterdawn.com -
Dec 3, 2005
Yet another lawsuit has been filed against Sony
concerning the XCP DRM software created by UK-based First4Internet. The
lawsuit ...
|
New York Attacks Sony|BMG
BetaDot - Dec
3, 2005
New
York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has followed the lead of the Texas
attorney, and the EFF who have filed lawsuits against Sony|BMG. ...
|
Lawsuit criticizes Sony CD software
Washington
Times, DC - Dec 2, 2005
By
Dan Caterinicchia. A District resident acting as a "private attorney
general" this week filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG Entertainment ...
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Sony's dirty trick
Providence Journal
(subscription), RI - Dec 2, 2005
We
sympathize with music companies' trying to protect their
intellectual-property rights, what with their most important customers
-- young people -- being ...
|
Sony faces lawsuits over software debacle
NewsOK.com
(subscription), OK - Dec 2, 2005
By
George Lang. Three weeks after announcing it was suspending the use of
copy protection software on its compact discs, Sony BMG ...
|
A computer spy might be hiding in that new music CD
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL -
Dec 4, 2005
By Sean Piccoli. In case you hadn't heard, Sony BMG, a
record label with almost
November 15, 2005
Sony
BMG Anti-spyware Witch-hunt
GameSHOUT -
Texas
Attorney General, Greg Abbott, alleges that Sony BMG violated his
state's anti-spyware law with its XCP software. The anti ...
|
Anti-piracy behind the times
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL -
By
Brian Bergstein. BOSTON · It's been the better part of a decade
since
Napster and other free song-sharing services began scaring ...
|
EFF sues Sony over XCP
BetaDot - Nov
24, 2005
The
California-based non-profit organization Electronic Frontier
Foundation, as well as the Attorney General of Texas, has filed a law
suit against Sony ...
SonyBMG Litigation and
Rootkit Info
Texas sues Sony
BMG over 'rootkit'; Italy urged to prosecute
Out-Law.com, UK -
Nov 23, 2005
...
General Greg Abbott and digital rights group the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) yesterday filed separate lawsuits against Sony
BMG Music Entertainment ...
How
Sony BMG's Rootkit Is Impacting Sales
Techdirt - Nov
23, 2005
... I find it HI-larious that a week ago Sony
was proclaiming that no one cared about rootkits..and people on this
very site were proclaiming that people were ...
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Sony BMG red-faced over anti-copy 'malware'
Australian
IT, Australia - Nov 21, 2005
MUSIC publisher Sony BMG will swap its
contentious copy-protected CDs for new unprotected discs amd
unprotected MP3 files. The music ...
Texas Sues Sony BMG over Rootkit
-- article
related to The Courts and Sony.
EFF:
DeepLinks
It turns out Sony-BMG has deployed XCP
on a number of titles, in variety of ...
Several other Sony-BMG CDs are protected with a
different copy-protection ...
Sony
BMG sued over CD spyware
Leading
The Charge - Milton,Queensland,Australia
... He accused
Sony BMG of installing files on consumers‘
computers
without
their owners‘ knowledge and which hide other files installed by
Sony.
...
Sony
BMG, please keep off my PC
Daily
Yomiuri Online - Japan
For those of you that have not been keeping
up, Sony BMG has sold at least 2 million music CDs with
special copy protection code that comes along for the ride. ...
Texas
sues Sony BMG over spyware
Financial
Express - Bombay,India
Texas became the first state in the nation
to sue Sony BMG Music Entertainment, alleging it
secretly
embedded compact discs with invisible "spyware" that ...
Sony
BMG's sour note
OregonLive.com
- Portland,OR,USA
In a misstep that ranks among the biggest
in consumer marketing history, Sony BMG quietly issued
up
to 5 million of these discs recently with a form of copy ...
All
the Sony BMG News That's Fit to Print
Stereophile Magazine - New
York,NY,USA
By Wes
Phillips. November 27, 2005 -- There have been even further
developments
on the Sony BMG root kit debacle since the last time we
updated you. ...
Texas
State sues Sony BMG
ShortNews.com
- Regensburg,Germany
Sony BMG is being sued because
of the software that is on their music cds. It silently installs on
your
pc and records data about you. ...
Sony
BMG's Costly Deafness
BusinessWeek
- USA
... 25. For Sony BMG Music Entertainment,
it has become a public-relations nightmare -- and it shows no signs of
abating. On Oct. 31, computer ...
Sony
BMG's Costly Deafness
BusinessWeek
- USA
The label was alerted to the secret, virus-vulnerable
software on its CDs long before the scandal broke. Trouble is,
according
to ...
Sony
BMG was warned about XCP
Afterdawn.com
- USA
Finnish anti-virus company F-Secure has revealed that
it first alerted Sony BMG about problems surrounding
the
XCP copy protection technology used on some of ...
Eliot
Spitzer Discovers Sony BMG's Rootkit
Techdirt - USA
by Dave Walker on Tuesday, November
29th, 2005 @ 04:24AM. Has anyone seen any evidence of Sony's
recall actually proceding? I was ...
Corporate
arrogance: Sony BMG Music
RedState.org
- Mclean,VA,USA
In case you've been hiding under a rock
you may have missed a great story on the corporate arrogance of Sony
BMG Music Entertainment. ...
Lessons
from Sony BMG's CD Mess
Always
On - USA
... You could almost count in days the time
it would take after the release of a copy-protected Sony BMG
disc before gleeful hackers broke the code and posted how ...
Legal
Woes Mount for Sony BMG Because Of Its CD Software
Findlaw.com - Mountain View,CA,USA
Sony
BMG Music Entertainment (Sony BMG) is feeling
some
recent legal heat with respect to software it included in millions of
music CDs. ...
Lessons from Sony BMG's CD Mess
Always On -
Now,
you can argue (correctly) that Sony has a right to protect its discs,
should have a DRM scheme in place, and merely goofed by either
overreaching or doing ...
|
Music labels losing sales over DRM
Dummocrats - Nov
29, 2005
It's
not news that consumers hate DRM, especially the kind that keeps Little
Johnny from ripping that Velvet Revolver disc to his iPod on Christmas
morning. ...
|
Gamekeeper turns poacher
Business
Standard, India -
It took the best part of five decades for Sony to
establish itself as an iconic brand. It is a market leader in
everything from ...
Sony Rootkit Sleuth to Join Class Action Suit
Washington
Post, United States - Nov 30, 2005
The
security researcher whose examination of anti-piracy software included
on many Sony BMG music CDs sparked a public firestorm has been hired as
an expert ...
|
Sony BMG faces the music
CNET News.com, United
States - Nov 30, 2005
Sony
BMG Music Entertainment, feeling the legal heat over the
copy-protection software in millions of its music CDs, last week was
sued in both Texas and ...
|
Sony's DRM woes worsen
Register, UK -
Nov 30, 2005
Sony
BMG has done a marvellous job of dealing with fallout from secretly
installing spyware on consumers' machines - but now unfortunately it
has attracted the ...
|
New
York AG blasts Sony
ZDNet - Nov
29, 2005
Apparently
Sony isn't moving quickly enough in its recall of DRM rootkit infected
CDs. Eliot Spitzer is breathing fire down Sony's collective necks. ...
|
New
York ponders Sony 'rootkit' suit
CNET News.com, United
States - Nov 29, 2005
New
York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is reportedly looking into the
prospect of legal action against record label Sony BMG Music
Entertainment, as a result ...
|
Sony BMG's Costly Silence
BusinessWeek - Nov
29, 2005
The
label was alerted to the secret, virus-vulnerable software on its CDs
long before the scandal broke. Trouble is, it didn’t ...
|
Sony's
woes won't go away
CNET News.com, United
States - Nov 29, 2005
Sony's
ongoing PR nightmare over the copy-protection software included on some
of its CDs just got a lot worse. BusinessWeek Online ...
|
Sony warned early of rootkit dangers
SC Magazine, UK -
Bloggers’ latest question for the brass at
Sony-BMG Entertainment has become, “Why didn’t the music giant act
sooner?”. After ...
|
Anti-DRM
Protest Part II in NYC
Slyck, NY -
Many
things have changed since the first anti-DRM protest in late October of
2005. The first anti-DRM protest was significant, but lacked a central
theme. ...
|
Corporate arrogance: Sony BMG Music
RedState.org, VA -
In
case you've been hiding under a rock you may have missed a great story
on the corporate arrogance of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. ...
|
New York Joins Sony CD Investigation
Consumer Affairs -
15
By
Martin H. Bosworth. Sony BMG's bad month is now officially a bad year.
New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer is investigating ...
|
Canadian Sony BMG To Take Back Spyware CDs
Billboard Radio
Monitor, NY - 17
By
Etan Vlessing. Sony BMG Music Canada began a mail-in exchange program
Wednesday for music CDs sold that contained spyware. Facing ...
|
Too late
to apologize
Northern Star Online -
Nov 30, 2005
So
now Sony has apologized for the rootkit fiasco involving its CDs, which
the Northern Star wrote about last week. As if that makes everything
OK. ...
|
AG on Sony Spyware: 'Cloak-and-Dagger Deceit'
Austin
Chronicle, TX - Dec 1, 2005
Texas
Attorney General Greg Abbott last week filed a groundbreaking lawsuit
against Sony BMG Music Entertainment, alleging the company secretly
installed an ...
|
Spitzer Vs Sony
antiMUSIC.com, CA -
Nov 30, 2005
.
(FMQB) In the latest chapter of the ongoing story of Sony BMG's flawed
copy-protection software, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is
calling for ...
|
XCP
CDs still on store shelves
Afterdawn.com -
Nov 30, 2005
New
York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has blasted Sony BMG for failing to
live up to its promise to pull CDs containing XCP DRM software from
store shelves. ...
|
Sony DRM (Disastrous Rootkit Mistake)
Smart
House, Australia - Nov 30, 2005
One
day marketing students will no doubt learn about Sony BMG's disastrous
rootkit mistake as a perfect example of how not to have contempt for
your customers ...
|
Spitzer now on Sony's case
SC Magazine, UK -
Nov 30, 2005
New
York state Attorney General Elliot Spitzer has added his 2 cents to the
Sony-BMG Entertainment rootkit controversy, scolding retailers who
still have CD ...
|
Snail mail fix to Sony's XCP problem
CBC
Edmonton, Canada - Nov 30, 2005
Sony
BMG Music has announced a mail-in exchange program for CDs containing
damaging XCP software. About 120,000 of the affected CDs were sold in
Canada. ...
|
Sony knew about DRM spyware
p2pnet.net, Canada -
Nov 30, 2005
p2p
news / p2pnet: Anyone who's following the Sony BMG First 4 Internet XCP
DRM spyware scandal - and that's everyone - could be forgiven for
thinking it was ...
|
Spitzer
Investigating Sony's XCP Software
CSO, MA - Nov
30, 2005
One
week after being sued by the Texas Attorney General, Sony BMG Music
Entertainment is now in the sights of Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General
for the State of ...
|
New York lawman chases Sony BMG
Macworld UK, UK -
Nov 30, 2005
By
Robert McMillan, Macworld staff. One week after being sued by the Texas
Attorney General, Sony BMG is under investigation by Eliot ...
|
Spitzer In Spat With Sony… Again
Security
Pronews, KY - Nov 29, 2005
You
knew it was only a matter of time before New York Attorney General (AG)
Eliot Spitzer went after Sony for the rootkit row. Spitzer ...
Spitzer
goes after Sony BMG
p2pnet.net, Canada -
Nov 29, 2005
p2p
news / p2pnet: New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer is on Sony BMG's
case. Again. He's already nailed the label on bribery ...
|
Eliot Spitzer Warns Over Sony DRM
addict3d.org - Nov
29, 2005
Things
continue to get worse for Sony BMG following the discovery of a rootkit
in its CD copy-protection software that degrades PC performance and
puts users ...
|
Sony
BMG was warned about XCP
Afterdawn.com -
Nov 29, 2005
Finnish
anti-virus company F-Secure has revealed that it first alerted Sony BMG
about problems surrounding the XCP copy protection technology used on
some of ...
|
Spitzer Gets On Sony BMG's Case
WMUR
Channel.com, NH - Nov 29, 2005
Sony
BMG Music Entertainment is getting a lot of unwanted attention for its
use of copyright-protection software that left CD users open to
computer viruses. ...
|
Sony facesanti-piracy lawsuits
Napa Valley
Register, CA - Nov 29, 2005
By
LIZ AUSTIN, Associated Press Writer. AUSTIN, Texas -- Sony BMG Music
Entertainment's troubles over anti-piracy technology on music ...
|
Gamekeeper turns poacher
agencyfaqs.com, India -
7
In
an attempt to restrict piracy, Sony BMG unleashed a tool that makes all
systems easy hacker-bait. It took the best part of five ...
|
Spitzer
Gets on Sony BMG's Case
CIO Today, CA -
15
Spitzer's
office dispatched investigators who, disguised as customers, were able
to purchase affected CDs in New York music retail outlets -- and to do
so more ...
|
Recalled Sony CDs Still On Sale
Consumer Affairs -
17
Sony
BMG Music Entertainment has recalled its compact discs that contain
copy protection software with the potential to expose computers to
viruses and other ... |
What
makes a rootkit?
ZDNet - Nov
21, 2005
The
Sony BMG copy protection debacle has pulled "rootkit" out of the hacker
underground and into the wider world of regular computer users. ...
How
Sony BMG's Rootkit Is Impacting Sales
Techdirt -
by
JUSTICE on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 @ 03:54AM. I wonder if their
sales plumitted because their CDs were pulled from the shelves? There
was a recall? ...
|
Yes its true, RIAA supports Rootkits
TechSpot -
by
Derek Sooman on Mon 21 Nov 2005, 07:06 PM. As we have been discussing,
the RIAA have claimed support for Rootkits, maintaining ...
|
RIAA says Sony did nothing wrong
TechSpot -
by
Justin Mann on Mon 21 Nov 2005, 11:17 AM. In typical RIAA speak, Cary
Sherman stated in a press conference held on the 18th that ...
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RIAA
Supports Use of Rootkits
DVD-Recordable -
RIAA
president Cary Sherman has backed Sony's use of spyware rootkits and
claims that other companies do it all the time. A rootkit ...
|
What makes a rootkit?
TMCnet -
(ZDNet
News)The Sony BMG copy protection debacle has pulled "rootkit" out of
the hacker underground and into the wider world of regular computer
users. ...
Texas
Versus Sony BMG
The independent nation of Texas declared war on Sony BMG Music
Entertainment on this day, Monday, November 21, 2005...
Corporate Criticism in Sony Rootkit Row
What defines a good cyber security company? Is it response to new
threats? Is the customer service superb? Do they keep your computer
protected? When Sony BMG issued CDs with malware...
Sony Sued Over Copy Protection
PC World - 14
Sony
BMG Music Entertainment's fight over its XCP copy protection software
shifted to the courts Monday as Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and
lawyers from ...
|
Sony sued
over controversial CDs
BBC News, UK -
Sony BMG's woes in the US over its much-criticised
anti-piracy CD software have deepened. It is facing two separate
lawsuits in Texas and California. ...
|
|
Consumer
group sues Sony
San Francisco
Chronicle, United States -
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San
Francisco consumer group, and the Texas attorney general on Monday sued
Sony BMG Music Entertainment, claiming that ...
|
|
Texas
sues Sony over CDs
Chicago
Sun-Times, United States -
AUSTIN, Texas -- Sony BMG Music Entertainment's
troubles over anti-piracy technology on music CDs deepened Monday as
Texas' attorney general and a California ...
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|
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Texas
puts Sony BMG in its sights
Register, UK -
The Attorney General for the state of Texas filed
a lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment on Monday, calling the
media giant's copy-protection ...
|
|
Sony DRM defeated by
sticky tape
Inquirer, UK -
SONY'S DRM technology was a waste of time because
it could be defeated by a bit of sticky tape. According to the bean
counters at ...
|
|
Sony
BMG Sued Over Anti-Piracy Software
Los Angeles
Times, CA -
By Charles Duhigg, Times Staff Writer. A
California-based digital-rights group and the Texas attorney general
sued Sony BMG Music ...
|
|
Sony
BMG sued over CD spyware
Hollywood
Reporter, United States -
By Chris Marlowe. Sony BMG has legal troubles
beyond its battles against piracy. The state of Texas and consumer
activist group Electronic ...
|
|
Texas
sues Sony for 'hidden' CD software
Telegraph.co.uk, United
Kingdom -
By David Litterick in New York (Filed:
22/11/2005). The State of Texas yesterday filed a lawsuit against music
giant Sony BMG for ...
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|
Texas sues Sony BMG over CDs
MSNBC -
By Paul Taylor in New York. Sony BMG music
Entertainment faced a new legal challenge on Monday after Texas became
the first state ...
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|
Sony BMG
Sued Under Anti-Spyware Laws
ABC News -
Mark Russinovich is shown in his office with his
Van Zandt CD from Sony BMG Music Entertainment, in which he discovered
that the company had added a copy ...
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|
Scotch
Tape Stymies Sony Copy Protection
InformationWeek, NY -
With a small bit of tape on the outer edge of the
CD, the PC then treats the disc as an ordinary single-session music CD
and the commonly used music 'rip ...
|
|
Texas
Sues Sony Over Spyware
Red Herring, CA -
The state of Texas sued Sony BMG Music
Entertainment on Monday for allegedly installing spyware through its
copyright protection software on music CDS, making ...
|
|
Texas
sues Sony BMG for spyware violations
Reuters -
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas Attorney General Greg
Abbott filed a civil lawsuit on Monday against Sony BMG Music
Entertainment (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research ...
|
|
Texas
sues Sony BMG for spyware violations
Reuters -
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas' Attorney General Greg
Abbott said on Monday he had filed a civil lawsuit against Sony BMG
Music Entertainment because its media ...
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|
Texas
Sues Sony Under Anti-Spyware Law
Washington Post, United
States -
AUSTIN, Texas -- The state sued Sony BMG Music
Entertainment on Monday under its new anti-spyware law, saying
anti-piracy technology the company slipped into ...
|
|
Sony
outlines rootkit CD recall plan
ZDNet UK, UK -
Nov 21, 2005
Sony BMG Music Entertainment released details on
Friday of a virtually unprecedented CD recall program that will allow
music buyers to exchange recently ...
|
|
Who has the
right to control your PC?
ZDNet - Nov 21,
2005
Sony BMG Music Entertainment opened a rather ugly
can of worms when it started selling copy-protected compact discs that
planted so-called rootkit software on ...
|
|
Sony
Announces CD Swap Program
Techtree.com, India -
Nov 21, 2005
In the latest twist to Sony BMG's music CD
debacle, the company has announced a "mail-in program", wherein
consumers can exchange CDs containing XCP copy ...
|
|
Sony
offers disc swap
Australian
IT, Australia - Nov 20, 2005
MUSIC publisher Sony BMG will swap its contentious
copy-protected CDs for new unprotected disks as well as unprotected MP3
files. ...
|
|
Sony Gets
Caught With Slipped Discs
Newsweek - Nov
19, 2005
Nov. 28, 2005 issue - Benjamin Franklin once
remarked that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over
and over and expecting a different result. ...
|
|
Amazon
recalls spyware Sony CDs
VNUNet.com, Netherlands -
Online retailer Amazon.com has started to recall
and replace all the CDs bought from its site that include Sony's XCP
copy protection software. ...
|
|
Thousands
of faulty CDs sold in Canada
CBC News, Canada -
Nov 18, 2005
About 120,000 recalled Sony BMG CDs that create
security glitches were sold in Canada, the company said Friday. The
discs contain ...
|
|
Sony
BMG Recalls Copy Protected CDs
Billboard, NY -
Nov 18, 2005
Sony BMG is pulling millions of copy-protected CDs
from US store shelves in response to a mounting controversy over
software contained on the discs that ...
|
|
Sony offers new
CDs, MP3s for recalled discs
ZDNet - Nov 18,
2005
Sony BMG Music Entertainment released details
Friday on a virtually unprecedented CD recall program that will allow
music buyers to exchange recently purchased ...
|
|
Copy
protection an experiment in progress
Seattle Post
Intelligencer - Nov 18, 2005
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN. BOSTON -- It's been the better
part of a decade since Napster and other free song-sharing services
began scaring ...
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|
Week
in review: Sony's sour note
CNET News.com, United
States - Nov 18, 2005
Sony BMG Music Entertainment finds itself singing
the blues this week, after copy protection on many of its CDs struck a
sour note on fans' PCs. ...
|
|
Anti-piracy
software accused of license violation
New Scientist
(subscription), UK - Nov 18, 2005
Uproar over controversial anti-piracy software
carried by some Sony music CDs has intensified with claims that the
software itself uses open source computer ...
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|
Sony,
Amazon Detail CD Buyback
Washington Post, United
States - Nov 18, 2005
Sony BMG has just posted a series of Web pages
that should help consumers who have purchased music CDs tainted with
its flawed anti-piracy software exchange ...
|
|
Reuters
Technology Summary
Washington Post, United
States - Nov 18, 2005
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ubisoft's
"Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie" has been
building buzz since it was previewed at the ...
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|
Amazon offer
for Sony CD buyers
BBC News, UK -
Nov 18, 2005
Amazon is offering refunds to customers who bought
Sony BMG CDs that use the controversial XCP anti-copy system. The offer
has been ...
|
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CD
woes may have had roots in merger
USA Today - Nov
17, 2005
By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY. Copy-protection
software that would to do the impossible: make CDs that couldn't be
repeatedly copied. ...
|
|
Sony
DRM hits open source trouble
Australian
IT, Australia - Nov 17, 2005
COPY-PROTECTION software used by Sony BMG on music
CDs appears to have poached open source code, experts have said. The
XCP program ...
|
|
Sony
BMG recalls copy-protected CDs
ABC
Online, Australia - Nov 17, 2005
Sony BMG Music Entertainment is recalling music
compact discs equipped with hidden copy-protection software due to
security risks. ...
|
|
Sony:
The rootkit of all evil?
USA Today - Nov
17, 2005
So Sony BMG has been getting a lot of flack lately
for, well, for a bunch of things. First it installed Trojan horse
software on ...
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|
Sony
BMG tries to climb down
p2pnet.net, Canada -
p2p news / p2pnet: Besides giving refunds for
DRM-infected CD’s, Sony-BMG will also give consumers a new unprotected
CD in return, says Reuters. ...
|
|
Sony
CD's Recalled over Security Concerns
580 CFRA
Radio, Canada - Nov 18, 2005
If you own a CD distributed by Sony your computer
could be at risk of getting hacked. Sony BMG is recalling about 120,000
CD's in ...
|
|
Sony BMG, here's what
you need to know
DataFuse.net, Belgium -
Nov 18, 2005
This little game between the press, Sony BMG and
companies such as Microsoft has been running for way too long. We
reported on the ...
|
|
Sony,
Amazon Detail Rootkit CD Buybacks
Slashdot - Nov
18, 2005
An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com is
reporting that Sony BMG today detailed a program that should allow
customers who bought one of the 52 titles ...
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Record Label
Recalls Dozens of CD Titles
NewsChannel5.com, TN -
Nov 18, 2005
Customers have discovered privacy software on the
Some Sony CDs make their computers vulnerable to viruses. Every label
is fighting a battle against piracy. ...
|
|
TechCheck
| not just for geeks
Kykernel.com
(subscription), KY - Nov 18, 2005
First there was the Napster lawsuit in the courts,
and then there was the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from Congress.
Now the ...
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Sony BMG disc
exchange program begins
LaSalute.net, Italy -
Nov 18, 2005
New York (NY) - Music publisher Sony BMG this
afternoon announced it is commencing a mail-in exchange program for
customers who have purchased Sony BMG CDs ...
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Bloggers
Bustin’ Sony
WebProNews, KY -
Nov 18, 2005
At this point, many who follow news in the
Internet community know of Sony BMG's desperate maneuvers and unethical
tactics to protect their copyrighted material ...
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Sony CD
Exchanges and Possible Code Theft
Designtechnica, OR -
Nov 18, 2005
By Geoff Duncan. First, Sony has announced details
of a consumer exchange program for music CDs which shipped with XCP
copy protection. ...
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Sony
Discloses List of Rootkit CDs
BetaNews - Nov
18, 2005
The initial count of 20 CDs that bundled Sony
BMG's now infamous XCP copy-protection software has grown. The label
has issued a ...
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Amazon
Sony BMG DRM refund
p2pnet.net, Canada -
Nov 18, 2005
p2p news / p2pnet: Amazon.com says it'll reimburse
customers who bought Sony BMG CDs infected with Sony BMG's
First4Internet XCP DRM spyware. ...
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Sony pulls copy-proof
CDs stuffed with spyware
NewsOK.com
(subscription), OK - Nov 18, 2005
By George Lang. Sony BMG had a terrible week --
the kind of week in which "bad corporate neighbor" tripped off the
tongue as easily as "Hello." On Nov. ...
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Paying
the Price
Oregon Daily
Emerald, OR - Nov 18, 2005
For some time now, there has been a lot of talk
about piracy: downloading music for free, burning CDs, sharing music
files and all other creative methods of ...
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Microsoft
to remove Sony BMG malware from PCs
The Tide, Nigeria -
Nov 18, 2005
Microsoft said it would remove controversial
copy-protection software that CDs from music publisher Sony BMG install
on personal computers, deeming it a ...
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Gigs &
Bytes: The Rootkit Of All Evil?
Pollstar - Nov
18, 2005
A major label's latest attempt to protect its
music from pirates has become a major problem for Sony BMG Music
Entertainment – a problem that has sparked at ...
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Sony
scathed by spyware scandal
Rocket
(subscription), PA - Nov 17, 2005
On Oct. 31, it was discovered that Sony-BMG has
been distributing CDs that install spyware, which Sony calls XCP, on
any computer used to play them. ...
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Sony BMG
Recalls 52 Copy-Protected Titles
Chart
Attack, Canada - Nov 17, 2005
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has recalled its
XCP-encoded CDs and is offering exchanges to disgruntled consumers
whose PCs using Windows operating systems ...
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Sony's
CD Fix Has Security Problems
Free Internet
Press, NY - Nov 17, 2005
Consumers who used computers to listen to Sony BMG
music CDs containing flawed software were still exposed to potentially
crippling security breaches yesterday ...
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Sony's
CD code draws criticism
World Peace
Herald, DC - Nov 17, 2005
By Chris Barylick. WASHINGTON -- Following a week
of extensive public criticism, Sony BMG's problems continued as
class-action lawsuits ...
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No Copy Protection
On Australian Sony BMG CDs
Top40-Charts.com, NY -
Nov 17, 2005
Sydney, AU (SONY BMG Music Entertainment) - To all
Australian music consumers: SONY BMG can assure you that all CDs and
DVDs manufactured by us in Australia ...
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CDs
with faulty software sold in Canada
Canada.com, Canada -
Nov 19, 2005
TORONTO -- About 120,000 Sony BMG CDs that create
security glitches in computers were sold in Canada, the company said
Friday. Sony ...
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Tainted
Sony CDs Used Open Source
Wired News - Nov
19, 2005
Controversial copy-protection software used by
music publisher Sony BMG on music CDs appears to have tapped an
open-source project, raising questions about ...
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Copy
Protection Still a Work in Progress
San Francisco
Chronicle, United States - Nov 18, 2005
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer. It's
been the better part of a decade since Napster and other free
song-sharing services ...
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Unsafe Sony CDs swapped for
MP3 files, disks
MSNBC - Nov 18,
2005
BARCELONA - In an attempt to make up with
consumers whose PCs have been exposed to unsecure copy-protection
software which acts like malware, music publisher ...
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Sony
DRM CDs 'may violate LGPL'
ZDNet UK, UK -
Nov 18, 2005
Copy-restriction technology used by music
publisher Sony BMG on CDs appears to have tapped an open source
project, raising questions about copyright, software ...
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Reuters
Technology Summary
Washington Post, United
States - Nov 18, 2005
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Controversial
copy-protection software used by music publisher Sony BMG
<6758.T> on music CDs appears to have tapped an open source ...
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More
trouble for Sony BMG CDs
Expressindia.com, India -
Nov 18, 2005
Barcelona, November 18: Controversial
copy-protection software used by music publisher Sony BMG on music CDs
appears to have tapped an open source project ...
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Amazon offer for
Sony CD buyers
Kashar
News, Pakistan - 5
New York, November 20, 2005: Amazon is offering
refunds to customers who bought Sony BMG CDs that use the controversial
XCP anti-copy system. ...
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Copy
Protection Still a Work in Progress
Wyoming News, WY -
8
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN Sunday, November 20, 2005.
BOSTON - It's been the better part of a decade since Napster and other
free song-sharing ...
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Copy
Protection Still a Work in Progress
Herald News
Daily, ND - 9
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer Fri Nov
18, 9:27 PM ET. BOSTON - It‘s been the better part of a decade since
Napster Napster ...
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Piracy
hounds music labels
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(subscription), AR - Nov 19, 2005
BY BRIAN BERGSTEIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. BOSTON —
It’s been the better part of a decade since Napster and other free
songsharing ...
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XCP
security software on CDs sold in Canada
Canada
East, Canada - Nov 19, 2005
By Angela Pacienza. TORONTO (CP) - About 120,000
Sony BMG CDs that create security glitches in computers were sold in
Canada, the company said Friday. ...
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Sony
BMG piracy fight backfires
Jackson Clarion
Ledger, MS - Nov 19, 2005
BOSTON — It's been the better part of a decade
since Napster and other free song-sharing services began scaring the
daylights of the music industry. ...
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Sony
offers new CDs, MP3s for recalled discs
TMCnet - Nov 18,
2005
(ZDNet News)Sony BMG Music Entertainment released
details Friday of a virtually unprecedented CD recall program that will
allow music buyers to exchange ...
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Copy
protection still a work in progress
MLive.com, MI -
Nov 18, 2005
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN. BOSTON (AP) — It's been the
better part of a decade since Napster and other free song-sharing
services began ...
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Copy
Protection Still a Work in Progress
Leading The
Charge, Australia - Nov 18, 2005
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer BOSTON -
It‘s been the better part of a decade since
Napster Napster and ...
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Week in review:
Sony's sour note
LaSalute.net, Italy -
Nov 18, 2005
Sony BMG Music Entertainment finds itself singing
the blues this week, after copy protection on many of its CDs struck a
sour note on fans' PCs... ...
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Sony DRM hits open
source trouble
LaSalute.net, Italy -
Nov 17, 2005
COPY-PROTECTION software used by Sony BMG on music
CDs appears to have poached open source code, experts have said...
COPY-PROTECTION ...
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Sony
BMG Recalling CDs with Flawed Copy-Protection Software
Sci-Tech
Today - Nov 17, 2005
Sony BMG
Music Entertainment announced Wednesday that it is recalling music
compact discs equipped with hidden copy-protection software due to
security risks. ...
