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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...

Tags: p2p, drm, bpi

[27 Mar 2008]

Vodafone offers unlimited music downloads

News Using Omnifone's MusicStation platform, users can choose from a catalogue of more than one million songs from major music labels - such as EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and the Warner Music Group - and independent labels.

Tags: iphone, mobile music, vodafone

[10 Sep 2007]

Sony USB device harbouring "nasty" rootkit

News The criticism is reminiscent of that directed at Sony BMG Music Entertainment in November 2005, when a programmer revealed that a technique designed to cloak the company's copy-protection software for music CDs also could be used by virus writers...

Tags: security, usb, rootkit, sony

[03 Sep 2007]

Sony BMG does mobile downloads deal in China

News Sony BMG Music Entertainment has struck a deal with content aggregator Global Music International to distribute the company's music videos, full track songs and ringtones to mobile subscribers in China.

Tags: mobile music, china, sony bmg

[05 Apr 2007]

Yahoo! China sued by record labels

News The IFPI represents more than a thousand members including record labels such as EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music. A music industry body is launching a series of lawsuits against Yahoo!

Tags: music, music download, ifpi, yahoo

[07 Mar 2007]

All eyes: Universal added to BT Vision roster

News This follows similar agreements with Warner Music Group and Sony BMG, while other entertainment groups such as Channel 4, Disney and Dreamworks have also been signed up. BT has struck a deal with Universal Music Group for music videos to be made...

Tags: bt vision, universal, video on demand, broadband

[15 Feb 2007]

Google expands video ads pilot

News Google is broadening a test announced on Monday in which it said it would run ads from Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music on its publisher customer sites, said a Google spokesman. Google is expanding the pool of companies that will...

Tags: video, ads, google

[25 Jan 2007]

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...

Tags: rootkit, music, drm, sony

[21 Dec 2006]

Google sweating to make YouTube legit

News According to Google, CBS, Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal Music and Warner Music Group have all signed deals to feature their video content on YouTube in the past month. Google is trying to persuade traditional media companies to come aboard the good...

Tags: youtube.com, youtube, napster-to-go, napster

[03 Nov 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.

Tags: second life, web 2.0, reuters

[16 Oct 2006]

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.

Tags: youtube, youtube.com

[09 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.

Tags: limewire, music piracy, music industry, music

[07 Aug 2006]

Record labels to sue Yahoo! China

News The IFPI represents more than a thousand members including record labels such as EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music. Music industry group the IFPI has said it's going to sue Yahoo! China for making pirated music available for download.

Tags: yahoo china, ifpi, china

[04 Jul 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.

Tags: m00p, virus writers, trojan horse

[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...

Tags: drm, cd, apple

[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...

Tags: rootkit, sony bmg, drm, sony

[23 May 2006]

Rootkits: Digital Rights Management, Spyware, and Security

whitepaper 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...

Tags: protection, music, drm, bmg

[14 Apr 2006]

Bertelsmann eyes a 'MySpace' for silver surfers

News Bertelsmann also owns pan-European broadcaster RTL, publisher Random House and half of music company Sony BMG. German media group Bertelsmann plans a return to the internet and is looking at transforming its Direct Group of book, CD and DVD clubs...

Tags: myspace, bertelsmann

[04 Apr 2006]

UK voted internet villain 2006

News Sony BMG, European commissioner Viviane Reding, the EC and Russia were also nominated as villains of the web. Anti-terror moves that would force ISPs to retain data for longer in Europe got the thumbs down last night, as the UK was crowned internet...

Tags: isp

[24 Feb 2006]

Anti-spyware group agrees detection guidelines

News The guidelines should also make it clearer when companies cross the line of what's acceptable and legal and what's not when it comes to downloads, as Sony BMG did recently with its "rootkit" programs, said a spokesman for the ASC.

Tags: anti-spyware coalition, anti-spyware, adware, spyware

[13 Jan 2006]

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