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Sony BMG Settles Over CD DRM
aurispector writes "Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program on consumers' computers. The settlements, announced Tuesday, cover lawsuits over CDs loaded with one of two types of copy-protection software — known as MediaMax or XCP.
Although it's great to see this as a victory for consumers, I can't help but wonder about the next wave of DRM schemes."
You are still a bunch of no good thieves
There was no actual financial damage from this, though.
Electronic Warfare / Electronic Terrorism - what else do you call something that compromises 1,000s of government computers, business systems, and home computers?
The rootkit trojan fiasco deserved a military response.
If the source of this digital infection was a certain middle east Muslim country,
the Bush administration would have been tripping over itself to start another attack.
I was boycotting Sony until they released the best rear-projection TV on the market. What can I say? Should I watch substandard TV just to make a point?
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
No. You're just itching for a "You're all so mean to Microsoft, waaa!" type post and you're not doing a very good job of it. Tell me, are you claiming that by not adding Autorun to Windows, which would Microsoft be? Insecure or anti-competetive? I'll save you the trouble: neither. They'd have been exersizing common sense, which is something Microsoft lack by the meteric tonne. Please save your "Waa waa, mean old Slashdot!" posts for some other time.