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Sony's legal issues
Mark Rasch, 2005-11-14

Last month I wrote about a dispute between the Federal Trade Commission and a spyware distributor where the FTC alleged that an End User License Agreement, which essentially told downloaders that they were downloading spyware, was a false and deceptive trade practice. Two events cause me to revisit this issue. First, the FTC has gone after another spyware distributor, and second, Sony Corporation has caused the surreptitious installation of a rootkit-type program to enforce its digital rights management on its music CDs, claiming authority to do so under an End User License Agreement.

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norgan
Here's how you get the CD to play... 2005-11-16
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ChiRaven
May be illegal in UK 2005-11-16
Anonymous
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Sony's legal issues - EULA and DELL 2005-11-16
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Steve
For those willing to write and/or leave comments preferably for the revocation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act as a consequence of the Sony debacle:
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F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., Chairman
Committee on the Judiciary
U.S. House of Representatives
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

http://judiciary.house.gov/default.aspx
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Joe Barton, Chairman
The Committee on Energy and Commerce
U.S. House of Representatives
2125 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

http://energycommerce.house.gov/
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