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UK record industry in illegal file-sharing crackdown
News Multi-national label EMI sells tracks DRM-free through Apple's iTunes catalogue while Warner, Sony/BMG and Universal offer unprotected songs on Amazon's US site. But Benn acknowledged there is a dramatic shift among major labels away from digital... [27 Mar 2008]
Sony BMG faces ongoing rootkit fallout
News Sony BMG, which Sony operates jointly with Bertelsmann Music Group, agreed earlier this week to pay $1.5m in fines and pay customers in California and Texas whose computers suffered damage as a result of Sony's surreptitiously installed digital... [21 Dec 2006]
Virus writer suspects bagged by police
News McAfee UK security consultant Greg Day said in addition to installing a backdoor, the Trojan would attempt to hide itself by exploiting the rootkit-like properties of any Sony BMG digital rights management, or DRM, software installed on a system. [28 Jun 2006]
UK MPs call for digital rights reform
News It said Sony's approach was shocking and recommends in its report "Ofcom publish guidance to make it clear that companies.if they have features such as those in Sony-BMG's MediaMax and XCP systems, run a significant risk of being prosecuted for... [05 Jun 2006]
Sony DRM settlement passes final legal hurdle
News A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to a endgame in a class action suit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment over anti-piracy software the company had embedded in some music CDs. The court action picked up last autumn when security... [23 May 2006]
Rootkits: Digital Rights Management, Spyware, and Security
White Paper Sony-BMG and other record companies face some hard decisions. For these DRM advocates, Sony-BMG's misadventures with CD copy protection are a cautionary example of the downside of DRM. In adopting active protection, Sony-BMG crossed an important... [14 Apr 2006]
Sony's DRM woes grow as hackers say hello
News Sony BMG took another blow on Wednesday, when a security company said it has found malicious attacks based on software designed to defuse the record label's "rootkit" problems. Websense's security labs reported it has discovered several websites... [17 Nov 2005]
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