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Sony Rootkit Settlement Gets Judge's Approval
Lewis Clarke wrote to mention a ZDNet story about Monday's final approval of the rootkit settlement in the case brought against Sony BMG Music. From the article: "The agreement covers anyone who bought, received or used CDs containing what was revealed to be flawed digital rights management (DRM) software after Aug. 1, 2003. Those customers can file a claim and receive certain benefits, such as a nonprotected replacement CD, free downloads of music from that CD and additional cash payments ... At least 15 different lawsuits were filed by class action lawyers against the record label, and the New York cases were eventually consolidated into one proceeding. The parties reached a preliminary settlement with Sony BMG in December, leaving it up to a judge in a U.S. District Court in New York to make it official. "
*Hands a government official a breifcase with $500,000 inside* I see we have come to an agreement for you to stop pressuring us.
gotta love buisness in the good ol US of A.
Oh suck it, ya fascist. Unless company policy specifically forbids listening to music at work, this shouldn't be an issue. I sincerely hope you don't have authority over anyone you work with, you sound like a perfect Lumbergh. I've got your TPS report right here, buddy, just bend over a little and you can see it...
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
"Those customers can file a claim and receive certain benefits, such as a nonprotected replacement CD, free downloads of music from that CD and additional cash payments "
At the same time they collect $150K for every song someone downloads without their permission. Oh yeah, that sounds fair...
How about this, Sony has to pay $1 billion to every customer that had this root kit installed without their knowledge. Yeah, that's a nice fair figure factoring from the $150K now considered reasonable for illegal downloading a single song or movie. Ooops, I forgot, that would hurt BUSINESS (Vs hurting those pesky people). Gotta protect those poor businesses. Wouldn't want them to have to pay for their behavior.... Now way Josey....