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'Shift Key' Student Won't Be Sued
News In an abrupt reversal, SunnComm Technologies said on Friday that it will not sue a Princeton University graduate student who published a paper that describes how to bypass CD copy-protection technology simply by pressing the shift key.
[October 13, 2003, 8:55]
Pushing 'shift' Draws Lawsuit
News SunnComm Technologies, a developer of CD anti-piracy technology, said on Thursday that it will probably sue a Princeton student who earlier this week showed how to evade the company's copy protection by pushing a computer's shift key.
[October 10, 2003, 14:40]
New Technology Hides Data Inside Music Files
News SunnComm Technologies, one of several companies developing anti-CD copying products, has licensed a new technique that can hide data, video, software or an identifying watermark inside music files. SunnComm realised that the watermark-like...
[March 21, 2003, 8:25]
Restraints Relaxed In CD Anti-copying Tech
News SunnComm is adding a spoonful of sugar to its anti-copying medicine. SunnComm said a file expires after the recipient listens to the song a certain number of times. Phil Benyola, a digital media research associate for investment company Raymond...
[April 16, 2002, 12:17]
Pushing 'shift' Draws Lawsuit
Talkback How many man months/yrs invested in development time, and a simple shift key press disables a security feature SunnComm probably charged a client a lot of money for. Instead of blaming the researcher, SunnComm should accept it has done a thoroughly...
[October 10, 2003, 15:37]
EFF Lifts Curtain On New Act Of Sony DRM Farce
News The danger is associated with copy-restriction software included on some Sony discs created by a company called SunnComm Technologies. Following those revelations, the EFF asked computer security company iSec Partners to study the SunnComm DRM...
[December 7, 2005, 8:10]
Sony Rootkit Farce Continues
News The latest risk is from an uninstaller program distributed by SunnComm Technologies, a company that provides copy protection on other Sony BMG releases. Sony said in a statement on Friday that SunnComm had removed the uninstall program from the Web...
[November 21, 2005, 8:15]
Flaw Found In Sony DRM Patch
Talkback F4I's XCP was new, custom built to Sony specifications, but the Sunncomm Mediamax spyware has an installed base of non-Sony titles that don't carry any warning that they are infected with the Mediamax malware.http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/Sony-BMG...
[December 9, 2005, 10:40]
Copy-protected CD Hacked--or Is It?
News Phoenix-based SunnComm, which provided the copy-protection technology for the CD, said the leaked songs did not come from a cracked CD but were likely copied from an unprotected set of 2,000 CDs released in Australia.
[May 16, 2001, 8:48]
Copy Protection Broken By Hitting 'shift'
News The technique was confirmed by BMG and SunnComm Technologies, the small company that produces the anti-copying technology. The ease with which Halderman and others have disabled BMG and SunnComm's latest copy-protection techniques illustrates the...
[October 8, 2003, 8:50]
Merger Could Spawn More Copy-proof CDs
News Over the last two years, at least four companies -- Macrovision, Midbar Tech, Sony and start-up SunnComm -- have tried to persuade record labels to add various flavours of anti-copying technology onto ordinary CDs.
[November 6, 2002, 9:27]
Macrovision To Use Microsoft Anti-piracy Technology
News After that proved unpopular with an increasingly PC-centric listening audience, copy-proofing companies such as Macrovision and rival SunnComm Technologies looked for a way to put protected pre-ripped files directly on CDs, which could then...
[April 24, 2003, 7:51]
Copy-proof CDs Flood Europe
News The CDs would be protected using a product from Macrovision rival SunnComm Technologies. In that note, Auty downgraded Macrovision's stock, saying that SunnComm's potential relationship with Arista didn't bode well for its rival.
[April 3, 2003, 10:12]
Apple: Play Music At Your Own Risk
News The issue was highlighted this year when a consumer sued SunnComm, Fahrenheit Entertainment and MusicCity Records, alleging they misled consumers about an album by country singer Charley Pride -- the first known copy-protected music disc released...
[May 14, 2002, 11:54]
New CDs Designed To End 'ripping'
News On his CD-R information site, a popular resource for recordable CD technology, software engineer Andy McFadden tells his own story of how he was able to get a digital copy of a SunnComm-protected CD. Macrovision and SunnComm are upping the ante...
[September 28, 2001, 14:25]
New CD Protection Won't Play On PCs
News SunnComm, another digital rights management company, has also struggled with a copy-protected CD released by veteran country music singer Charley Pride. Later, consumers complained that the SunnComm-protected CDs could not play on devices such as...
[March 6, 2002, 15:56]
EFF Lifts Curtain On New Act Of Sony DRM Farce
Talkback This article on P2PNET about SunnComm shows that they also need to lift their business ethics as well as their technical expertise.http://p2pnet.net/story/7201
[December 7, 2005, 13:02]
Pushing 'shift' Draws Lawsuit
Talkback SunnComm is suing the wrong party. If they developed it on their own, SunnComm needs to fire everyone involved with the project and hire people with IQ's out of the single digit range - this is even worse than the Sony debacle of just taking a felt...
[October 11, 2003, 22:53]
Celine Dion Disc Could Crash European PCs
News Companies that provide such technology include Macrovision, SunnComm and Midbar Tech. MusicCity Records, Fahrenheit Entertainment and digital rights management company SunnComm in February agreed to settle a lawsuit over the album "Charley Pride: A...
[April 5, 2002, 15:20]
Rootkits: A Sign Of Things To Come
News When reports of other interesting software showing up on Sony music CDs, such as SunnComm Technologies MediaMax, began to trickle in as well, I sat back and watched. By now, I would bet that most readers are familiar with the recent controversy...
[December 13, 2005, 15:00]
