Sony BMG Settles Over CD DRM

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @11:31AM from the sorry-about-that dept.

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."

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Not the DRM, the rootkit. by jcr · 2006-12-20 11:54 · Score: 4, Informative

iTunes, RealPlayer and several other apps prove that it's possible to implement DRM without buggering the host OS. Sony's not in trouble for using DRM, they're int trouble for installing a rootkit.

-jcr

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