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Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
News The copy-restriction technologies on the Van Zant CD have not only been criticised for being difficult to remove, but could pose a security risk to computers, according to researchers. Mikko Hyppönen, the director of antivirus research at F-Secure...
[November 3, 2005, 16:35]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
Talkback A patch sent too antivirus companies? Talk about a bandaid on a gunshot wound.
[November 3, 2005, 20:20]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
Talkback I bought Athlete's CD album, 'Tourist' at the beginning of last summer, went to copy it on my hard disk but was prevented from doing so. I also refuse to buy music distributed by any label/company that stops you from being able to do what you want...
[November 5, 2005, 0:27]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
Talkback At least in Holland you can't illegally download music for personal use because that's not illegal under such circumstances. What is illegal however is to distribute music without proper approval (which many peer-to-peer share programs would like...
[November 8, 2005, 21:44]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
Talkback I have over a thousand cds and have paid hundreds of dollars downloading music from ITunes. I bought the recent Rolling Stones cd and I cannot put it on my computer or into ITunes. I cannot burn it as an mp3 to put into a mix for personal use.
[November 9, 2005, 19:14]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
Talkback I won't be buying any more Sony CDs.this is unbelievable.
[November 7, 2005, 17:41]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
Talkback I will not be buying ANY Sony products until they acknowledge this as unacceptable, and commit to not doing it again. This punishes people who PAY for their music, not the pirates and hackers.
[November 4, 2005, 13:48]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
Talkback Its not just their CD's. I don't buy sony DVD's anymore as they don't play on my Sharpe DVD player. Sony DVD's are the only ones I have this problem with.
[November 4, 2005, 10:46]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
Talkback Oh and where does SONY get its money from, which other companies do this, none except the big players. I bet these people who are moaning are the ones who buy SONY good, I think their suckers!
[November 3, 2005, 22:44]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
Talkback What Sony have done is called hacking and virus creation all in ones. Hacking and veius creation is a very serious federal crime all over the world. So go to nearest police station and put charges at them.
[November 3, 2005, 22:32]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
Talkback Gah! The end of this article discusses a patch without mentioning that it DOES NOT FIX OR REMOVE THE SOFTWARE, only makes it visible. ZDNet - please don't let your readership believe that the patch is a good solution!
[November 3, 2005, 22:25]
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 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]
Sony Offers To Replace Rootkit CDs
News Customers who have bought a Sony CD that contains rootkit-like copy-restriction technolgies that leaves their PCs vulnerable to attack will be offered an exchange, Sony said on Tuesday. Sony says more than 20 titles have been released with the XCP...
[November 16, 2005, 6:00]
ITunes DRM Hole Fixed
News Apple has closed a security hole that allowed an underground program to tap into its iTunes Music Store and purchase songs stripped of copy restriction features. The PyMusique software, created by a trio of independent programmers online, emerged...
[March 22, 2005, 9:05]
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]
New York Judge Passes Sony Rootkit Settlement
News The suits were filed after the exposure of serious security risks to computers that had played one of dozen Sony CDs, which had copy-restriction software included. In the settlement, Sony has agreed to stop producing the CDs, and replace the...
[January 9, 2006, 12:15]
ICANN Still Rules The Internet Roost
News Meanwhile, SonyBMG continues to try to weather the fallout from its surreptitious copy-restriction rootkit, as conditions grow more stormy with the emergence of a Trojan horse that uses that rootkit to take over PCs.
[November 23, 2005, 12:20]
EMI Considers Opening Its DRM To Inspection
News The EFF, a digital rights group, sent an open letter to EMI earlier this month asking EMI to publicly declare that it would not take any legal action against independent computer security researchers who investigate copy-restriction technologies...
[January 20, 2006, 12:45]
Rootkits Epidemic Threatens Users
News Its research into "stealth techniques" also covered cloaking technology bundled with commercial programs, such as Sony BMG's copy-restriction tool, and with potentially unwanted software such as adware.
[April 18, 2006, 9:55]
