Sony BMG faces digital-rights siege

Sony BMG faces digital-rights siege
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-11-10

The criticism of music giant Sony BMG Music Entertainment and its surreptitious copy protection software went up an octave this week as attorneys and law firms readied nearly a half dozen legal complaints against the company on behalf of consumers.

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Sony BMG faces digital-rights siege 2005-11-12
Chad Smith (1 replies)

It seems to me that this should fall under the same jurisdiction as now causes Cigarette companies to label their packets dangerous to your health, consumers should be made more aware that their system may face being more easily compromised due to software being installed that _they neither want, no...

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Re: Sony BMG faces digital-rights siege 2005-11-15
Will-Never-Trust Sony-Again (1 replies)

.....not to mention that any sort of copyright protection that they could come up with is only a temporary measure. I suppose they didn't learn that lesson with CSS and DVDs. Perhaps a different marketing model, or better yet -- better music, would bring the buyers back to where they once were.......

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Re: Re: Sony BMG faces digital-rights siege 2005-11-15
Anonymous (1 replies)

This piece of crap rootkit/DRM unfairly jeopardizes Windows users'property. Mac and Linux users are unaffected by this. Consumer's personal 'fair use' of what we buy should not be hampered nor should it endanger our personal property....

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Re: Re: Re: Sony BMG faces digital-rights siege 2005-11-17
Anonymous

Mac users are NOT protected..., there is a special mac version see several mac sites....

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Sony BMG faces digital-rights siege 2005-11-21
Anonymous (1 replies)

thank god i download my music and only buy their games and hardware(ps,ps2,psp,ps3)...

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Re: Sony BMG faces digital-rights siege 2005-11-23
Anonymous

They will need your money from your PS addiction to sue you for downloading in order to stay in business.

Also they control the media and it hasn't come out that a hell of a lot more than 20 CDs have at least 3 or 4 different viruses called XCP, SunCom, MediaMax, and CDEXTRA+AOL (which doesn't ha...

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