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	The Sony Boycott Blog
		Another investigation launched on the heels of Sony BMG’s settlement with the EFF and the New York class action suit: Charlie Crist, Florida’s attorney general, announces the opening of an investigation into the surreptitious installation of Sony BMG’s DRM software.
		An interesting open thread at Freedom to Tinker is developing two competing points of view: that Sony BMG got off lightly in their settlement agreement, and that the settlement is a fair and reasonably complete redress of customer grievances.
		This is certainly good news for Sony BMG, as it gets them out of the New York courts without drawing a lawsuit from the state attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, who has been making threatening throat clearing noises over Sony BMG’s conduct in the case.
	www.boycottsony.us (1648 words)

	EFF: Sony BMG Rootkit Settlement FAQ
		Sony BMG has agreed to use the banner functionality on some of its CDs to give individual notice to purchasers at the time they put the CD into their computers, as well as put notices on many artists websites and purchasing adwords giving notice more broadly.
		We're still working with Sony about what these will look like, but EFF believes that taking extra steps to give people notice of the need to patch their systems, and of the settlement, is important.
		Sony BMG will then send you the cash (which may take the form of a debit card) and promotional codes that you can use to download the music from one of three different services (including iTunes).
	www.eff.org /IP/DRM/Sony-BMG/settlement_faq.php (3233 words)

	Sony USA - Sony BMG Music Entertainment Announces Management Realignment
		SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, which is headquartered in New York, will continue to be governed by a Board of Directors consisting of six representatives of Bertelsmann and Sony.
		Thanks to that effort SONY BMG is well—positioned to deal with the complex issues and rapid changes facing the music industry, and it continues to maintain strong market position as well as a particularly strong performance in this past quarter in comparison with the industry overall.
		SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT is a global recorded music joint venture with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history.
	www.sony.com /SCA/press/060210.shtml (1688 words)

	Sony BMG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc. is the result of a 50/50 joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment (part of Sony) and BMG Entertainment (part of Bertelsmann) completed on August 5, 2004.
		In July 2005, Sony BMG was fined 10 million dollars after the New York Attorney General's office determined that they had been practicing payola mostly in the form of direct payments to radio stations and bribes to disc jockeys to promote various artists including Franz Ferdinand, Audioslave, Celine Dion and mainly Jessica Simpson.
		BMG's former Japanese subsidiary is part of Sony BMG.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sony_BMG (627 words)

	Security Fix Archive by Category
		Sony BMG Music Entertainment has agreed to a settlement that would end a nationwide class-action lawsuit brought against the company over security flaws in anti-piracy software that it shipped on millions of music CDs.
		Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Friday she is investigating whether Sony BMG violated privacy and consumer protection laws, noting that her office has requested information from the company regarding anti-piracy software it included on music CDs that experts have...
		Sony BMG is facing yet another class-action lawsuit stemming from the controversy over its anti-piracy software, this time from a New York attorney who filed a federal case that could potentially include consumers in all 50 states.
	blogs.washingtonpost.com /securityfix/piracy/index.html (977 words)

	Digital Music News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sony BMG was forced to pull infected CDs from stores at the height of the Christmas season, and a number of civil suits followed.
		Sony BMG is cooperating with the current European Union review, which is similar to the regulatory process that preceded the original, 2004 approval.
		Sony BMG digital chief Thomas Hesse noted that 20 percent of US-based label revenues are coming from digital assets, part of an address Wednesday in Los Angeles.
	www.digitalmusicnews.com /results?title=Sony+BMG (4307 words)

	Rolling Stone : Copy-Protection Troubles Grow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sony BMG's attempts to protect its CDs against piracy continued to be a source of woe for the company in early December: Soon after recalling 5 million discs that contained the intrusive copy-protection software XCP, Sony BMG acknowledged that as many as 5.7 million more CDs posed a security risk for consumers.
		Sony BMG has been the most aggressive of the four major record companies in employing copy protection, which is intended to suppress both online file-sharing and fans copying unlimited discs for friends.
		Sony BMG originally announced plans to copy-protect all of its releases in 2006, but it is now reconsidering.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/8950981/copyprotection_troubles_grow (497 words)

	EFF: Sony BMG Litigation
		Sony BMG has failed, however, to address security concerns raised by the MediaMax software or the consumer privacy and consumer fairness problems created by both technologies.
		Open Letter to Sony BMG, asking the company to publicly commit to fixing the problems it has caused for its music fans and take steps to reassure the public that its future CDs will respect its customers' ownership of their computer.
		EFF also asked Sony BMG to pay all consumer costs associated with the damage caused by the XCP or SunnComm MediaMax technology and compensate people for the time, effort, and expense required to verify that their computer was or was not infected with the rootkit.
	www.eff.org /IP/DRM/Sony-BMG (841 words)

	Sony BMG's Costly Silence
		Sony BMG is in a catfight with a well-known computer-security outfit that became aware of the software problem on Sept. 30 and notified the music company on Oct. 4 -- nearly a month before the issue blew up.
		Sony BMG officials insist that they acted as quickly as they could, and that they expected to be able to go public and offer a software patch at the same time.
		Sony BMG planned to fix the glitch as soon as possible and to immediately make available a software patch that customers could download onto their computers to protect their machines from hackers.
	www.businessweek.com /technology/content/nov2005/tc20051129_938966.htm (1721 words)

	Billboard PostPlay: Sony BMG
		Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the world's second-biggest record label, admitted that its employees lavished cash, trips and other bribes on radio stations and their employees to get its music on the air.
		Reuters: Sony BMG CEO Andy Lack is the eternal pessimist: at a time when everyone in the industry is hopeful for new digital technologies, he is worried: "I don't think the prognosis is all that attractive going forward in '05, '06 and '07," he said.
		Mobile Entertainment: Newly-merged music giant Sony BMG has appointed Minick to provide its direct-to-consumer mobile multimedia download offering..."Sony BMG believes that mobile is a very important medium for our artists to gain exposure as well as to increase revenues through the sale of content," said Jon Davis, Sony BMG's director of new media.
	billboard.blogs.com /billboardpostplay/sony_bmg/index.html (1399 words)

	Scotch Tape Stymies Sony Copy Protection - Security Technology News by TechWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sony BMG Music's controversial copy-protection scheme can be defeated with a small piece of tape, a research firm said Monday in a demonstration of the futility of digital rights management (DRM).
		Sony's exchange program also gives buyers of the 52 in-question CDs the option of receiving unprotected MP3 files of the album's tracks, in large part because the disc exchange process takes three to six weeks.
		An earlier technology that Sony used could be circumvented by using a fl marker to draw a line near the edge of the disc.
	www.techweb.com /wire/security/174400646 (454 words)

	Researcher: Sony BMG "rootkit" still widespread
		Earlier this month, a New York district court judge gave the nod to a settlement penned by Sony BMG and the attorneys for six class-action lawsuits in the state.
		The graphical reminder showed that Sony BMG is taking the threat seriously, Kaminsky said, and could be responsible for much of the decrease in his numbers.
		Sony BMG could not be reached for comment on Monday.
	www.securityfocus.com /news/11369 (760 words)

	DRM this, Sony! - CNET.com
		Because I believe this is the week that Sony effectively declared war on the consumer, announcing what most of us had already suspected: fair use is a joke in the movie and record industry, and the companies who control mass-market content will truly stop at nothing to protect their profits.
		Sony grabs this opportunity to sneak into your house like a virus and set up camp, and it leaves the backdoor open so that Sony or any other enterprising intruder can follow and have the run of the place.
		On Wednesday, November 2, Sony had announced that it would, in conjunction with the company that developed the root-kit plan in the first place (First4Internet) release a patch to antivirus companies so that hackers wouldn't, hopefully, be able to take advantage of the backdoor they just opened on your property.
	www.cnet.com /4520-6033_1-6376177-1.html (1515 words)

	2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sony BMG released a software utility to remove the rootkit component of XCP from affected Microsoft Windows computers, but this removal utility was soon analyzed by Russinovich again in his November 5, 2005, blog and revealed as only exacerbating the privacy and security concerns.
		Opponents of Sony BMG's actions, including Slashdot and Digg contributors, later accused Sony BMG of violating the privacy of its customers to create a backdoor onto their machine using code that itself violates an open-source license.
		Sony BMG was quoted as maintaining that "there were no security risks associated with the anti-piracy technology", despite numerous virus and malware reports.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2005_Sony_CD_copy_protection_controversy (3052 words)

	SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT - cp.sonybmg.com/xcp
		SONY BMG is commencing a consumer exchange mail-in program whereby consumers may return any CD containing XCP software for a replacement version of that title without the software.
		Consumers who have used SONY BMG XCP content protected CDs on their personal computers are encouraged to download the latest software update here.
		Sony BMG wants music to be easily transferable to any device that supports secure music.
	cp.sonybmg.com /xcp/english/faq.html (4203 words)

	SONY BMG Music Entertainment
		Sony BMG Music Entertainment will be 50% owned by Bertelsmann and 50% owned by Sony Corporation of America.
		Sony BMG Music Entertainment will be governed by a Board of Directors consisting of six representatives of Bertelsmann and Sony.
		Sony BMG Music Entertainment will combine the best creative, operational and strategic assets of two very accomplished music businesses, and provide a vital new platform to further the development of talent and enjoyment of music around the world.
	www.bmg.com (870 words)

	USATODAY.com - Combined Sony, BMG would be top music seller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LONDON (Reuters) — Scrutiny of the proposed merger between record labels Sony Music and BMG is likely to intensify after figures released on Wednesday showed that together they would become the world's largest music company.
		BMG is owned by Germany's Bertelsmann and Sony Music by entertainment and electronics giant Sony (SNE).
		BMG's gains in 2003 were fueled by a restructuring the company says enabled it to get albums to markets around the world more quickly, and successful records from artists including Dido, Avril Lavigne, Pink and American Idol stars Clay Aiken and Kelly Clarkson.
	www.usatoday.com /money/companies/2004-06-16-sony-bmg_x.htm (552 words)

	BetaNews \| EFF Files Lawsuit Against Sony BMG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		November 22, 2005, 1:29 PM Not long after Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced he had sued Sony BMG over its invasive copy-protection scheme, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said it filed a class action lawsuit against the record label in Los Angeles.
		"Sony BMG is to be commended for its acknowledgment of the serious security problems caused by its XCP software, but it needs to go further to regain the public's trust," said Corynne McSherry, EFF Staff Attorney, in prepared remarks.
		Sony is facing six other class action lawsuits in addition to the Texas suit, according to the EFF.
	www.betanews.com /article/EFF_Files_Lawsuit_Against_Sony_BMG/1132684198 (2087 words)

	SONY BMG
		Sony BMG is in the limelight as the world's second largest record company, with a 25% market share.
		The final structure of Sony BMG will be made known at the end of the month.
		Sony and BMG couldn't have done all this without merging.
	www.sonybmg.de /company.php?id=21&infoid=9&newsid=1900000000002574 (947 words)

	YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
		In addition, SONY BMG and You Tube will work together to develop new and exciting opportunities which allow users to include certain SONY BMG sound recordings in their own uploads, adding to the Internet’s most vibrant video entertainment destination.
		SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT’s music video library and special artist content will be made available simultaneously with launch of this system, set for the end of this year.
		SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT will work with artists and rights holders to embrace this new opportunity to reach a tremendous new audience to promote and distribute their music.
	www.youtube.com /press_room_entry?entry=2cwCau7cKsA (575 words)

	Sony BMG faces the music \| Perspectives \| CNET News.com
		Sony BMG Music Entertainment, feeling the legal heat over the copy-protection software in millions of its music CDs, last week was sued in both Texas and California.
		EFF has expressed satisfaction that Sony BMG has taken steps in acknowledging the security risks caused by the CDs with XCP software, including a recall of the infected discs.
		Of course, Sony BMG will be entitled to its day in court, and it will be allowed to present any available defenses to seek to excuse its conduct.
	news.com.com /Sony+BMG+faces+the+music/2010-7348_3-5975695.html (846 words)

	FAQ \| SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
		SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC. recognizes the uniqueness of Canadian culture in all its diverse forms and is committed to signing, developing and promoting Canadian talent.
		SONY BMG posts concert dates online as soon as they are officially confirmed.
		SONY BMG's New Media team works with our artists to create sites that reflect their music and vision.
	www.sonybmg.ca /faq.cgi (3611 words)

	CNN.com - Sony, BMG agree on music merger - Nov. 7, 2003
		Sony Music and BMG say they plan to combine their music units in a move that could trigger further consolidation as the industry grapples with weak retail sales, online file-sharing and fierce competition with other forms of entertainment.
		The 50-50 joint venture combines No. 2 Sony, which includes such artists as Beyonce Knowles and Bruce Springsteen, with No. 5 BMG, a unit of German media firm Bertelsmann that is home to Britney Spears and Elvis Presley.
		Sony Music's Andy Lack will be chief executive of the venture and BMG's Rolf Schmidt-Holtz will become chairman.
	cnn.com /2003/BUSINESS/11/06/sony.bmg.reut/index.html (587 words)

	EU court rejects approval of Sony BMG music unit deal
		Both Sony and BMG said they would study the ruling and discuss next steps with the commission, but did not believe the decision undermined their business.
		The surprise ruling is the first time the courts have overturned a commission decision to clear a deal, and analysts said it could raise the stakes for other such mergers or even lead companies to call off talks.
		Sony and BMG must now resubmit their applications for antitrust clearance -- based on current market conditions -- within seven days, said EU spokesman Jonathan Todd.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/277549_sonybmg14.html (372 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Sony sued over controversial CDs
		The Texan lawsuit accuses Sony of installing spyware and is seeking damages of up to $100,000 in damages for each violation.
		The row began when Windows expert Mark Russinovich found that Sony BMG was using a so-called rootkit to conceal the program used to stop some of its CDs being copied.
		Sony has said it is co-operating fully with the attorney general's office.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/4459620.stm (641 words)

	Stereophile: Done Deal: Sony BMG
		Former Sony Music chief Andrew Lack was named CEO of the new venture, with BMG's former chief operating officer Michael Smellie retaining that title in the new company.
		Sony Music's former executive vice president and chief financial officer Kevin Kelleher will also keep his position in Sony BMG.
		Among the artists on the Sony BMG roster are big revenue generators such as Britney Spears, OutKast, and Travis Tritt, as well as back-catalog favorites such as Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Elvis Presley, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
	www.stereophile.com /news/080904sonybmg (508 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Sony and BMG merger backed by EU
		Sony and BMG merger backed by EU Beyonce is one of Sony's key performers
		Sony and Bertelsmann's proposed marriage would create the world's second largest record label, behind Universal Music, despite the deal excluding Sony's recorded music business in Japan.
		The merged company, to be called Sony BMG, is to be based in New York.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/3908405.stm (462 words)

	Sony's 'Rootkit' Is on 500,000 Systems, Expert Says
		Sony BMG will have a big job ahead of it as it tries to replace all copies of controversial copy protection software, according to a computer security expert, who says that he has evidence there are more than 500,000 versions of the program installed worldwide.
		Sony BMG has declined past requests to comment on the number of systems that run the software, known as XCP.
		Sony BMG reacted quickly to the initial criticism, releasing a software patch to disable it and instructions for obtaining a removal program within days of Russinovich's analysis.
	www.eweek.com /article2/0,1895,1887181,00.asp (1507 words)

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