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Sony BMG settles rootkit case with 39 states

December 21, 2006 Record label to pay $4.25 million a year after acknowledging that it secretly installed antipiracy software on music CDs. TAGS: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, settlement, digital-rights management, antipiracy, state, rootkit, Massachusetts, Texas, agreement, Sony Corp., California, CD

Sony has far to go in rootkit case

December 20, 2006 Label settled with two states but still must negotiate with others for secretly loading antipiracy software onto computers. TAGS: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, digital-rights management, antipiracy, rootkit, Texas, entertainment company, California, Sony Corp., attorney, entertainment, Amazon.com Inc., CD

Sony settles 'rootkit' class action lawsuit

December 29, 2005 The record label agrees to offer U.S. customers money and free downloads to encourage them to replace CDs that secretly install software. TAGS: class action lawsuit, class action, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, settlement, album, rootkit, Sony Corp., digital-rights management, CD, New York

DRM: Media companies' next flop?

January 30, 2006 Wharton experts examine whether digital rights management is worth the effort and whether it will survive. TAGS: digital-rights management, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, digital content, restriction, rootkit, professor, Sony Corp., entertainment, music, CD, TV, PC

Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod

May 23, 2006 Record label must stop using controversial anticopying software and compensate customers, settlement says. TAGS: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, settlement, rootkit, class action, copy protection, digital-rights management, New York, Sony Corp., CD, security

Attack targets Sony 'rootkit' fix

November 16, 2005 Security firm reports Web sites intended to exploit a flaw in a Sony program designed to remedy security problems in copy-protected CDs. TAGS: Websense Inc., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, rootkit, flaw, computer science, Sony Corp., uninstall, uninstaller, malicious code, copy protection, professor, digital-rights management, security, Web browser, Firefox, CD

Sony rootkit victims in every state, researcher says

January 18, 2006 Figures suggest that Florida leads the pack in PCs that have rootkit-like software from Sony's antipiracy tool. TAGS: rootkit, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, DNS, Sony Corp., digital-rights management, researcher, Florida, security, server, PC
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