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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]
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]
Napster Will Lose Its 'cool' Image
News It may have saved its bacon, but Napster's deal with Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) Tuesday will cost the song-swap site its credibility and its loyal user base, according to industry observers. The deal means BMG -- one of the 'Big Five' music...
[November 1, 2000, 12:52]
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]
Court Orders Sony To Pay Rootkit Victims
News A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to a settlement in a class action suit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment over copy protection software on music CDs that hacked customers' operating systems.
[May 23, 2006, 9:55]
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]
Bertelsmann: Making Music With Napster
News What I'm saying is the offer which is out there today, whether it's from Universal, whether it's from BMG, whether it's from Warner Music -- whatever -- doesn't enable the customer right now to get what he wants and what he deserves because he's...
[February 7, 2001, 13:57]
Sony Rootkit Remover On The Rocks
News Sony BMG took another blow Wednesday, when a security company said it has found malicious attacks based on software designed to defuse the record label's rootkit-related problems. Websense's security labs reported that it has discovered several Web...
[November 17, 2005, 8:40]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Can Bertelsmann Stop CD Copying?
News BMG Entertainment, the major record company owned by German media giant Bertelsmann, said it will begin this month to protect promotional releases of its CDs against copying. BMG will begin the trials with the April promo releases from artists Cee...
[April 9, 2002, 8:45]
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]
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]
