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Tunebite 6.0.31726.2300
Convert video and audio into popular digital formats.
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DRM: Media companies' next flop?
January 30, 2006
Wharton experts examine whether digital rights management is worth the effort and whether it will survive.
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EMI considers opening its DRM to inspection
January 20, 2006
Music industry giant is reviewing request by digital rights group to allow reverse engineering of its DRM software.
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U.K. government rejects calls for DRM ban
February 20, 2007
Almost 1,500 sign anti-DRM petition, but U.K. officials say the technology, when certain safeguards are observed, still has value.
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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.
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Sony 'rootkit' prompts office clampdown on CD use
November 14, 2005
IT departments are reacting to a new threat: users bringing CDs to work that can introduce rootkit-like software to their systems.
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EMI: We don't use rootkits
November 7, 2005
Record label claims its copy-restriction software can easily be uninstalled and is not hidden like that used by rival Sony.
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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.
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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.
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Will Sony's DRM nightmare affect future policies?
November 12, 2005
Readers weigh in on the security debacle surrounding Sony's rootkit music CDs.
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Security A to Z: Rootkits
November 27, 2006
Hackers aren't the only ones using rootkits. The Sony fiasco brought the toolkits into the mainstream.
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Apple, Amazon may hold future of DRM-free music
May 17, 2007
Sales of unprotected music at retailers could help determine whether record industry adopts open MP3s.
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Sony's antipiracy may end up on antivirus hit lists
November 4, 2005
Security software makers consider adding protection against the cloaking tool in Sony's anticopying technology.
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Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod
May 23, 2006
Record label must stop using controversial anticopying software and compensate customers, settlement says.
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Are these the Sony rootkit CDs?
November 10, 2005
A cyber-rights group identifies 19 Sony CDs that contain a rootkit application that disguises its invasive copy-restriction technology.
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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.
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Sony CD protection sparks security concerns
November 1, 2005
Anticopying tools used by SonyBMG could be adapted by virus writers, researchers say.
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U.K. online music hobbled by high prices
September 29, 2005
Despite the rising number of iTunes-style stores, the United Kingdom has yet to benefit from more choices or cheaper pricing, IDC says.
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