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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

“Comes With Music,” DRM & Sony BMG

Sony BMG (SNE) has signed on to Nokia’s (NOK) new “Comes With Music” program and really, who better than the pioneer of the rootkit digital-rights management scheme to endorse Nokia’s DRM-hobbled prebundled music initiative?
This morning, Sony BMG became the second record label to jump on board the Finnish phone giant’s Comes With Music offering, which–when [...]

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Friday, July 13, 2007

If Stupidity Were Illegal, You Might Have a Valid Counterclaim …

Still smarting over the flogging it suffered back in 2005 for encoding some of its music CDs with a harebrained rootkit copy-protection software, Sony BMG lashed out against the company that developed it last week, slapping it with a lawsuit. Sony accuses Amergence Group, formerly SunnComm International, of “negligence, unfair business practices and breaching the [...]

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