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Posted by FunkyDevil on 11/07/05 12:23
What Sony BMG and other companies don't seem to see , is that it only
takes one person to make the copy , it doesn't take all billion of us
to do it , only ONE of us has to do it ,
the internet RULES !!!
And there are probably numerous ways to copy a cd with or without
stealth viruses attached.
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FOLLOW UP :
Sony BMG's DRM provider does not rule out future use of STEALTH
http://stage.tgdaily.com/2005/11/04/f4i_says_sony_bmg_xcp_is_not_rootkit/
In an exclusive interview with TG Daily, the CEO of the company that
produces copy protection software for music publisher Sony BMG denies
allegations that this software is a rootkit, though acknowledges it
uses some of the same stealth means. They won't be used again, he says,
but stealth itself cannot be ruled out.
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Original story :
Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
Sony's antipiracy may end up on antivirus hit lists
Antivirus companies are considering protecting their customers from the
digital rights management software used by Sony on some CDs.
http://news.com.com/Sonys+antipiracy+may+end+up+on+antivirus+hit+lists/2100-1029_3-5933428.html
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LEST WE FORGET :
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/4832
Music companies settle in price-fixing case
"In August 2000, most U.S. states joined in a lawsuit alleging that an
industry practice called "minimum advertised pricing" (MAP)
artificially inflated the price of CDs between 1995 and 2000, violating
federal and state antitrust laws. Under MAP, the labels subsidized
advertising for retailers that agreed not to sell CDs below a certain
price.
The five record labels - Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group,
Sony's Sony Music, Bertelsmann's BMG Music Group,
Warner Music Group, a division of AOL Time Warner, and EMI Group -
and the three retailers,
Musicland Stores, Trans World Entertainment and Tower Records, agreed
to stop using MAP policies as part of the settlement.
The companies, which did not admit any wrongdoing, will pay $67.4
million in cash to compensate consumers who overpaid for CDs between
1995 and 2000. The companies also agreed to distribute $75.7 million
worth of CDs to public entities and nonprofit organizations throughout
the country."
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/10190
RIAA price fixing settlement delivers 'dud' CDs
" Wisconsin libraries have received more than 105,000 CDs as part of a
national settlement with the recording industry to settle a
price-fixing lawsuit, but few are choices most listeners would opt for.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/9163
Over 3 million consumers receive refund cheques from music companies
The approved settlement forces them to send out $ 13.86 refund cheques
to over three million music consumers across 40 states which started
from Friday and also bars the defendants from agreeing to fix prices in
future.
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