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May 24, 2006
Sony BMG evades rootkit justice
Did Sony BMG get off light in the settlement of the rootkit fiasco? Under the terms approved by a US judge, the music studio will compensate the customers whose PCs were infected by its over-zealous attitude to rights management, patronised, then endangered by its inept attempt to fix the problem, millions of customers will get, umm, not very much at all.
The rootkit victims - consumers who bought a CD with XCP software, can receive a replacement disc. They will also receive either a cash payment of $7.50 and one free album download, or three free album downloads.
Those with discs with MediaMax, which was another clandestine DRM approach deployed by Sony BMG, will only get free downloads.
In the circumstances of this great escape from justice, we don't propose to lift our ban on Sony BMG products. What about you?
AND .... by the way, what with EMI's digital music sales more than doubling last year, isn't it going to be more difficult to convince governments to continue to legislate in favour of these robber barons? Sorry. Of course it isn't. We were dreaming, as usual.
Posted by cw at May 24, 2006 09:33 AM
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Sony are from off the banned list...
It is the CD's such as Norah Jones that have the 'Copy Control' Digital Restrictions Management we need to now evict from the country.
Each 'Media Disc' has two layers, one audio and one data layer made for Windows users who cannot use a 'shift key' or who have autorun still enabled.
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at May 24, 2006 02:05 PM
Did you mean "Sony are *far* from off the banned list..."?
cheers, Paul
Posted by: Paul at May 24, 2006 03:44 PM