Sony settlement gets judge's nod

Sony settlement gets judge's nod
Robert Lemos, 2006-01-09

Sony settlement gets judge's nod 2006-01-09
Anonymous (1 replies)

Enough said...

Hopefully they learned their lesson....

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Re: Sony settlement gets judge's nod 2006-01-10
Anonymous (1 replies)

I personally think the Sony BMG's CEO should get 30 days in jail. You can fine them eleventy million dollars, and they'll just write it off as a corporate expense. The CEO should be taught a wee moral lesson - its just not acceptable installing rootkits on your customer's computers....

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Anonymous (1 replies)

I wonder what all the lawyers made off the class action suit?...

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Anonymous

The other $7.50 for each offense....

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What the ?!?! Talk about a slap on the wrist 2006-01-10
Roger

This is the sort of "free gift" that a store manager hands out to look like he's sorry without actually spending any money. Taking into account the fact that Sony is able to provide the downloads at wholesale rates (i.e. basically free), they are effectively just replacing the dangerous CD, the rest...

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Sony settlement gets judge's nod 2006-01-10
Anonymous (1 replies)

Seems like a very light wrist slap to me. I am more interested in example making of the kind being attempted by the State of Texas Attorney General...$100,000 per affected computer.

The recording industry is attempting to reduce the value of what they sell while raising the price, and are seeminl...

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Re: Sony settlement gets judge's nod 2006-01-10
Anonymous

There's only one logical explanation for this. That judge was obviously paid off by a sony BMG representative. Absolute greed is obselete when applied to any business model....

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