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. ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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