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InternetNews
January 30, 2007
Roy Mark |
Sony BMG Settles FTC DRM Charges Sony BMG Music agreed Tuesday it violated federal law by not telling consumers CDs sold by the company contained digital rights management software that monitored user listening habits to send them marketing messages.   |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
What Were You Thinking, Sony? Increasingly, music companies like Sony BMG are treating their customers like criminals who borrow, rather than purchase, their products. Sony's recent move goes way beyond that idea -- providing an intrusive technology that, in effect, hijacked its customers' computers. |
InternetNews
November 21, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Sony Sued Over DRM Rootkit Sony BMG's copy-protection software draws lawsuits from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the state of Texas. |
BusinessWeek
December 19, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Just Let Us Play The Movie The entertainment industry has a great opportunity for new markets, and the PC and consumer-electronics industries have an opening for new products. But realizing this potential will require all of them to show some respect for their customers. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
More Sucking Sounds at Sony The state of Texas cries foul over Sony's spyware practices, again. But it seems that many investors still retain a lot of belief in Sony, given that its stock price continues to go up. |
Home Theater
November 15, 2005
Mark Fleischmann |
Deep Rifts Exposed in Sony BMG Faux Pas Sony BMG's boneheaded misuse of hacker technology has potentially compromised the security of millions of PCs, inspired a bunch of computer viruses, provoked class-action lawsuits, caused a firestorm of protest in online forums, and even attracted veiled criticism from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. |
PC World
December 30, 2005
Robert McMillan |
Copy Controls: How Far Will They Go? Sony's invasive antipiracy efforts point to a coming battle for control of your PC. |
PC World
September 2005
Laurianne McLaughlin |
Copyright Crackdown New XCP2 technology on music CDs limits the number of copies you can make -- and gets in the way of putting tunes on an IPod. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
DRM May Die? Yahoo! Will online music's digital rights management go the way of the dodo? |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Sony Says I'm Sorry ... 21st-Century Style Sony, despite some recent missteps, tries to set things right with its spyware fiasco. While the stock has certainly been strong, who can buy a company that seems committed to tripping over its own digital feet and aggravating consumers in the pursuit of more money? |
PC Magazine
August 16, 2006
Robert Lemos |
DRM: The Untold Story For some, DRM stands for Down-Right Maddening. Here's why you should think twice about downloading DRM-protected files. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2006
Stephen Cass |
Antipiracy Software Opens Door to Electronic Intruders When security researchers in the U.S. and Finland discovered the music CD/rootkit problem, Sony BMG's reaction was so bad that it will probably be seen in future years as a textbook example of a botched corporate response. |
Home Theater
October 5, 2007 |
Copying Is Stealing, Says Sony BMG A single mother of two was successfully sued for using peer-to-peer file sharing to violate numerous copyrights. What may ultimately come to matter more than the verdict were some of the details that emerged along the way. |
PC World
November 5, 2001
Tom Spring |
Music Labels Target CD Ripping Claiming to fight piracy, labels test copy protection to keep audio CDs from going digital... |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
A Big Mistake at Sony BMG A small French company has alleged that Sony BMG pirated its software. |
Home Theater
April 23, 2007 |
Sony to Replace Defective DVDs Sony will offer replacements for 20 defective glitch-prone DVD titles. |
InternetNews
November 2, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Digging Out Sony's DRM Rootkit Using a technique popularized by malware writers, Sony runs software behind the scenes of its copy-protected CDs. |
InternetNews
November 7, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Sony Facing Not-so-Secretive Legal Action The Electronic Frontier Foundation is investigating whether to file a class-action lawsuit against Sony BMG for its anti-piracy activities on consumer computers. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Sony Recalls Rootkit-Plagued CDs Sony BMG is recalling the copyright-protected music CDs that have been causing no end of grief to the company. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2006
Doug Gale |
Can This Virus Be 'Rooted' Out? A new kind of hard-to-detect malware is increasing our vulnerability to hackers and creating headaches for makers of antiviral software. |
PC World
March 2006
Dan Tynan |
Hollywood vs.Your PC: Round 2 Legal options in digital entertainment are growing. But they come with restrictions that can hobble your ability to enjoy the content you've paid for and even threaten your control over your system. |
PC Magazine
December 21, 2005
Larry Seltzer |
Heard Any Good Malware Lately? Digital rights shouldn't violate civil rights as Sony's DRM rootkit seems to do. |
InternetNews
January 20, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
DRM Becomes a Balancing Act Companies walk a tightrope when it comes to protecting copyrighted work with Digital Rights Management, according to a new report. |
The Motley Fool
January 2, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
We're All Thieves to the RIAA The Recording Industry Association of America is going after consumers who have copied their own legally purchased CDs onto their own MP3s. |
Home Theater
March 6, 2008 |
Musicians Demand Copyright Cash Little of the millions of dollars in settlements major record labels have collected in copyright-infringement suits has been shared with recording artists. |
PC World
April 11, 2002
Tom Spring |
Face the Music: Suits Pending Over Copy Controls Class action suits may spring from consumer complaints of surreptitious CD copy protection... |
InternetNews
November 14, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Microsoft to Block Sony DRM Rootkit Microsoft has joined other security vendors in pursuit of the rootkit component to Sony's now-infamous anti-piracy measure. |
PC World
January 2002
Frank Thorsberg & Tom Spring |
New Shackles on Your CD, Video Copying In an effort to stem piracy, entertainment companies are placing new copy restrictions into their products... |
The Motley Fool
April 17, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Sony Blunders With DRM Again The electronics giant's zeal to protect copyright punishes customers. If Sony doesn't start rethinking its attitude toward DRM and its effect on consumers, it seems likely the company is going to suffer more negative perceptions. And for Sony investors, that's a real risk to contemplate. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Sony vs. Sony As the recording and electronics industries face off over digital music, one company has had the uniquely uncomfortable position of standing on both sides of the issue: Sony. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006
Joel Johnson |
Tech Clinic Expert Q & A How many USB devices can I hook up to my PC at one time?... What is he Sony rootkit and how do I get rid of it if it's on my computer?... How can I tell if someone is freeloading on my Wi-Fi network?... |
PC Magazine
March 14, 2007
Dan Costa |
DRM Is Dead Sure, the RIAA can sue a handful of students each year and shut down a P2P network every six months, but this is just legal Whac-A-Mole. It doesn't solve the problem. |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2006
Michael J. Miller |
Now Showing on Small Screens Technology is poised to change TV and movies in the same way as online music stores and digital music players have rewritten the rules for music distribution. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2005
Shannon Zimmerman |
Music Biz Blues The industry must recognize the their fragile business model is in need of an extreme makeover and their copyright-protection antics are generating enormous ill-will among the very folks who are supposed to be their customers. |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2005
Bill Machrone |
If I Told You, I'd Have to . . . It's illegal to talk about how to circumvent copy protection. In your home, in your car, anywhere. Get the picture? |
PC World
April 8, 2002
Tom Spring |
IBM Updates Copy-Protection Software PC pioneer and others prepare technology aimed at pleasing lawmakers threatening mandatory regulations... |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Sony Pays Up Last year's rootkit controversy is coming back to haunt Sony. For investors, Sony remains a tricky gamble until it can keep itself out of the negative limelight and put forth a more customer-oriented approach. There's no such thing as too big to do the right thing. |
Wired
February 2003
Frank Rose |
The Civil War Inside Sony Sony Music wants to entertain you. Sony Electronics wants to equip you. The problem is that when it comes to digital media, their interests are diametrically opposed. |
PC World
January 21, 2003
Joris Evers |
New Microsoft Tools Copy Protect CDs and DVDs Software will allow recording companies to restrict what you can do with CDs and DVDs on your computer. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
When Aging Music Companies Merge How will the music recording industry reinvigorate itself? |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Sony Seeks Novel Success Investors should appreciate it that the company is trying to carve out a niche with its upcoming Sony Reader, not emulate one. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Sony's Non-DRM Dud Sony has decided to begin selling DRM-free digital albums, but consumers will have to clear a few hurdles first. |
Home Toys
February 2006 |
DVD Insider #49 Sony's rootkit fiasco has RIAA execs thinking twice about how intrusive they make their DRM. Maybe they should send their lawyers to the pirates' lairs and focus on figuring out how to make a living in the always-on Internet. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Finally! A Record Label Gets Sued The Federal Trade Commission is suing Sony's music arm for violating online privacy laws for children. |
Salon.com
June 13, 2002
Damien Cave |
File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why. |
Home Theater
August 11, 2008 |
Sony BMG Is Just Sony Now Sony is buying Bertelsmann's 50 percent stake in the company, giving it total control of what will now become known as Sony Music Entertainment. |
Salon.com
March 27, 2001
Charles C. Mann |
Napster-proof CDs The music industry has a secret plan to safeguard popular music from the wild Web... |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2005
Shannon Zimmerman |
Compact Discs: The New 8-Track Major labels meet the future -- reluctantly. Online music stores represent the future of the music biz as evidenced by newly public Warner Music Group's report of $4 million in net income thanks, in part, to $31 million in digital music revenue that offset a similar-sized decline in CD sales. |
InternetNews
May 25, 2005
Tim Gray |
Report: AOL Close to Video Deal The company looks to cash in on music video sales with Sony BMG partnership, according to a published report. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
Payola: That Same Old Song Sony pays $10 million to settle for its pay-for-play transgressions. Payola's not dead after all. |
