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Downloading Free Music: Internet Music Lovers Don’t Think it’s Stealing
White Paper The first major resolution in the copyright fight came when MP3.com, a firm whose Web site allowed Internet users to access a vast online music library, settled copyright infringement suits this summer with Warner Music Group, BMG Entertainment... [03 Jul 2008]
YouTube gets chums in the music business
News YouTube on Monday announced partnerships with CBS, Sony BMG Music Group and Universal Music Group (UMG) that allow their artists' music and videos to be included in original video content posted on YouTube's website. [09 Oct 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]
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 CD saga: Alert over new security risk
News Computer researchers uncovered a new security risk on Friday related to Sony BMG Music Entertainment copy-protected CDs, which could expose several hundred computers to attack. The latest risk is from an uninstaller program distributed by SunnComm... [21 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]
Punishing UK downloaders 'will alienate customers'
News In the US, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which represents the world's big five music companies, Universal Music, Warner Music, EMI, BMG, and Sony Music, has begun suing individual music-swappers. [18 Sep 2003]
Napster: Bertelsmann faces the music
Comment Undoubtedly Bertelsmann's owners, already unnerved by internal ructions within BMG, the company's music business, would be less than impressed by an embarrassing climb-down after such a high-profile endorsement of Napster (which is, after all... [13 Feb 2001]
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