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BMG to sell digital downloads
News BMG Entertainment, which represents artists including Carly Simon and Christina Aguilera, will sell digital downloads of songs and albums from its catalogue through a number of online sites in the US, the company said Tuesday.
[October 10, 2000, 14:55]
Sony BMG sues over DRM debacle
Blog Music giant Sony BMG is to sue one of the companies involved in creating its digital rights management software for damages. According to an article on Out-Law.com, Sony BMG has started a lawsuit against Amergence Group, previously called SunnComm...
[July 16, 2007, 12:27]
Is Sony BMG spreading malware?
Talkback Sure, update the CMA. And before you know it someone goes to jail because his malfunctioning network card caused something a laywer might explain as a DDoS attack on some ISP router or whatever else that can go wrong in this free-from-liability IT...
[November 9, 2005, 21:50]
Is Sony BMG spreading malware?
Talkback I am hoping to receive a bit more reactions on my comments since I do think they do concern matters that need to be discussed in the open. So, what's your point of view?
[November 11, 2005, 20:50]
Is Sony BMG spreading malware?
News Sony has recently promoted CD restriction schemes that allow vendors to limit the number of times someone can play a CD. Until recently, most viewed this as a relatively benign technology. However, security software author Mark Russinovich was...
[November 9, 2005, 13:55]
Copy protection broken by hitting 'shift'
News A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling the new anti-copying measures being tested on CDs by BMG -- and they're as simple as holding down a computer's shift key. In a paper published on his Web site this week...
[October 8, 2003, 8:50]
Music online: Big boys team up on delivery system
News BMG Entertainment and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.to back its digital music-delivery system in an aggressive push to become the de facto standard for delivering music over the Internet. If the pact is finalised it would create powerful...
[May 6, 1999, 15:08]
Sony plans patch after DRM rootkit row
News Sony BMG Music Entertainment and a technology partner are working with antivirus companies on a fix for a potential security problem in some copy-restricted CDs. Earlier in the week, security experts said that anticopying technology used by Sony...
[November 3, 2005, 10:10]
EFF lifts curtain on new act of Sony DRM farce
News Sony BMG and the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights group jointly announced on Tuesday they had found, and fixed, a new computer security risk associated with some of the record label's CDs.
[December 7, 2005, 8:10]
Sony CD protection sparks spyware row
Talkback Like a cheap hooker, Sony/BMG will take your money, screw you, and expose you to all sorts of viruses. Thanks to Sony/BMG and First 4 Internet, it is now safer to get your music illegally via P2P versus actually paying for it.
[November 15, 2005, 4:04]
Sony suspends production of DRM 'rootkit' CDs
News Sony BMG Music Entertainment said on Friday that it will suspend production of CDs with copy-restriction technology that has been exploited by virus writers to try to hide their malicious code on PCs.
[November 12, 2005, 11:45]
Yahoo! chief executive: Searching for a survivor
News Former BMG Entertainment head Strauss Zelnick has turned down an opportunity to take the helm at Yahoo! BMG is a party in the recording industry's copyright infringement suit against Napster, and Zelnick himself was an outspoken opponent of the...
[March 29, 2001, 8:51]
Major label invests in Riffage
News BMG Entertainment was one of five companies that invested a total of $21m (£13m) in second-round financing for downloadable music company Riffage. BMG's investment in Riffage, which also provides downloads of tracks from new bands, could set it up...
[December 16, 1999, 12:33]
Sony settles class action lawsuit over DRM
News Sony BMG has struck a deal with the plaintiffs involved in a class action lawsuit over copy-restriction software it used in music CDs, according to a settlement document filed at a New York court on Wednesday.
[December 29, 2005, 13:55]
Sony rootkit victims 'in every US state'
News A security researcher has revealed that computers in every US state have been affected by copy-restriction software produced by Sony BMG. The digital rights management (DRM) software is automatically installed by some Sony BMG music CDs and is...
[January 17, 2006, 16:40]
AOL pumps up the volume
News The announcement marks the first major step taken by the company since hiring former BMG Entertainment executive Kevin Conroy as the head of AOL Music. The company is also a partner in online subscription service MusicNet, which lists RealNetworks...
[July 23, 2001, 12:56]
UK buyers fume over copy-protected CD
News In this environment, BMG's return policy raises another potentially dangerous issue for record companies. BMG Entertainment confirmed on Monday that it has set up a hotline for consumers in the United Kingdom who are having trouble playing Natalie...
[November 20, 2001, 9:18]
Sony outlines rootkit CD recall plan
News Sony BMG Music Entertainment released details on Friday of a virtually unprecedented CD recall program that will allow music buyers to exchange recently purchased CDs with copy-restriction for new discs and MP3s.
[November 21, 2005, 11:00]
Sony's rootkit woes aren't over
News Sony BMG is making amends in California and Texas for secretly loading antipiracy software onto customers' computers. Sony BMG, which Sony operates jointly with Bertelsmann Music Group, agreed earlier this week to pay $1.5m in fines and pay...
[December 21, 2006, 8:20]
Sony rootkit farce continues
News Computer researchers uncovered a new security risk on Friday related to Sony BMG Music Entertainment copy-protected CDs, which could expose computers to attack. The latest risk is from an uninstaller program distributed by SunnComm Technologies, a...
[November 21, 2005, 8:15]
