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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. More people than ever are able to illegally swap their music collections because... [27 Mar 2008]
Sony BMG faces ongoing rootkit fallout
News Sony BMG is making amends in California and Texas for secretly loading antipiracy software onto customers' computers. Sony BMG, which Sony operates jointly with Bertelsmann Music Group, agreed earlier this week to pay $1.5m in fines and pay... [21 Dec 2006]
Reuters gets a Second Life
News Other companies with a presence include CNET Networks, owner of silicon.com, music label Sony BMG and car maker Toyota. Reuters is to extend its influence beyond the real world by opening a virtual news bureau in the online world of Second Life. [16 Oct 2006]
Music industry takes aim at LimeWire
News A group of music companies, including Sony BMG, Virgin Records and Warner Bros Records, have accused LimeWire and the company's officers of copyright infringement, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Friday in US District Court in New York. [07 Aug 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]
Hacker hidey-hole found in Symantec product
News Symantec's alert has echoes of Sony BMG Music Entertainment's recent PC security fiasco. Symantec credits Mark Russinovich, the Sysinternals researcher who also investigated the Sony rootkit, and F-Secure, a Finnish security company that has a... [12 Jan 2006]
Sony to cough up DRM damages
News Sony BMG has struck a deal with the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit over copy-restriction software it used in music CDs, according to a settlement document filed at a New York court on Wednesday. [03 Jan 2006]
Microsoft fixes smorgasbord of IE flaws
News The browser security update also tackles part of the fallout from Sony BMG Music Entertainment's rootkit debacle. The browser security update will make it impossible to run older versions of an ActiveX control released by the record label. [14 Dec 2005]
More flaws: Sony's latest patch comes unstuck
News Sony BMG is replacing a patch for its CD copy protection software after Princeton University researchers found a security flaw in the update. Sony announced on Tuesday that a new risk had been found with a batch of 27 of its CDs, which... [09 Dec 2005]
Sony unearths new copy-protection threat
News Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) digital rights group jointly announced Tuesday that they had found, and fixed, a new computer security risk associated with some of the record label's CDs. [07 Dec 2005]
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]
Sony recalls millions of copy-protected CDs
News Record label Sony BMG Music Entertainment said on Tuesday that it will recall millions of CDs that, if played in a consumer's PC, will expose the computer to serious security risks. Anyone who has purchased one of the CDs, which include southern... [16 Nov 2005]
Music industry ditches hardcore copyright for 'free love' tunes
News Record companies in Europe, however, still seems to be worried about the prospect - Bertelsmann BMG, the world's fifth-largest record label, recently launched CDs in three formats including luxury and no-frills version to deter unauthorised copying. [06 Oct 2004]
Bertelsmann launches 'anti-piracy' CDs in Germany
News Bertelsmann BMG is currently understood to be in discussion with Sony regarding a possible merger. Bertelsmann BMG, the world's fifth-largest record label, is to offer different types of CD formatting in a bid to increase sales in an ailing record... [05 Jul 2004]
MusicNet and Pressplay have sympathy for the devil
News Pressplay announced on Monday that it has signed a deal with BMG and said it is close to reaching an agreement with Warner Music Group. Pressplay CEO Michael Babel said in a statement that the deal with BMG is "another important step forward" for... [16 Oct 2002]
