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- Sony BMG passes the buck
- You may all remember the Sony BMG rootkit saga back in 2005. In order to protect music CD's Sony started shipping them with software designed to stop the content from being copied. The software which has widely been dubbed as a ‘rootkit' and ‘spyware' installed itself on computers...
- Tags: security, General, antivirus
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Sony BMG passes the buck
- I think they both deserve what they get.Sony deserved every bit of the backlash it got by trying to screw the consumer out of fair use of a purchased product. Hopefully they'll lose the lawsuit too.As far as the folks that wrote the software, well, I hope they can...
- Tags: prplshroud, Sony BMG Music Entertainment
- Discussion threads 2007-07-16
- Sony BMG to pay penalties, consumers in rootkit deal
- $175got off cheap then didn't they.Won't touch them either, I bet they've several top boffins researching how to get away with it next time.YAAAY!However, Sony still has a long way to go before I'll trust them again. Right now, my mindset
- Tags: feedback, Zeppo9191, Sony Corp., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, rootkit
- Discussion threads 2006-12-20
- Guard against Sony's surreptitious rootkit
- Sony BMG has made headlines after the discovery of the clandestine rootkit included on many of its CDs. What's all the commotion about? In this edition of Security Solutions, Mike Mullins delves into this contentious issue. More than nine months ago, Sony BMG began distributing select CD labels...
- Tags: Sony Corp., CD, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Michael Mullins CCNA, MCP, rootkit, software, computer, Security Solutions Newsletter, Microsoft Corp., Mike Mullins, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Michael \"Mullins CCNA, MCP\"
- Technical articles 2005-12-01
- ICANN remains master of Internet domains—for now
- ICANN received a last-minute reprieve at the World Summit on the Information Society last week and will keep its control over Internet domains. Meanwhile, SonyBMG didn't fare as well as a recent Trojan kept its surreptitious rootkit in the spotlight. Get the details about both stories in this edition of...
- Tags: ICANN, John McCormick, Rootkits, Internet, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, IT Locksmith Newsletter, Software, Sony Corp., Domain, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Rootkit
- Technical articles 2005-11-21
- Copy protection software causes controversy
- Sony has recently promoted CD protection schemes, which most viewed as relatively benign technology—that is, until a security researcher recently discovered that the protection involves planting a rootkit on computers, which some are saying is equivalent to spyware. Get the details in this edition of the IT Locksmith, and get...
- Tags: Sony Corp., CD, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Mark Russinovich, John McCormick, Rootkits, Peer to peer (P2P), rootkit, software, copy protection, IT Locksmith Newsletter, Denial Of Service, Cisco IOS, Information Technology, Vulnerability, Macromedia Inc., Apple Inc., Defendant, Computer, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Technical articles 2005-11-07
- A tough year for security
- 2005--ItÂ’s almost over and what a tough year it was for bothnetwork administrators and end users in terms of security. Leaks of financial data left over 50 millionaccounts open for exploitation, phishing attacks have been steadily increasingand bot nets have continued to grow.While worm attacks have subsided we are...
- Tags: ItÂ, security
- Blog posts 2005-12-30
- New spyware claim against Sony BMG
- GOOD for Texas and all other entities sueing Sony, BUT...Sony is ONLY the tip of the iceburg.THIS is a list of all RIAA members: http://www.riaa.com/about/members/default.asp They ALL need to be boycotted because the RIAA needs to be put OUT of business!!!!!Cruise around that site and see what evil they are...
- Tags: btljooz, drm, RIAA, rootkits, security, sony, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Corp., spyware
- Discussion threads 2005-12-22
- Something Pfishy at Sony?
- Being the professionally paranoid individual anyone has to be if they started programming computers in the early 1960Â’s and is still in the field, not to mention having been a high-tech reporter since before IBM shipped the first IBM-PC, I have been watching the Sony DRM saga unfold with great...
- Tags: CD, Sony Corp., SunnComm MediaMax
- Blog posts 2005-12-12
- The Sony BMG Controversy, Plus a Website Launch
- I read somewhere in ZDNet that the XCP copy-restriction software that has the "rootkit" in it that Sony BMG Music Entertainment and First4Internet has put into the CD albums Sony plans to recall, has some measure of the open-source code from LAME. How weird! Now this whole controversial...
- Tags: feedback, internet, macromedia, microsoft, sony, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, swgoldwire2546, Web site, website, xara
- Discussion threads 2005-11-23
- Uh, what happened to fair usage rights?
- Everybody's emotional beef is my concerned beef:Sony BMG Music Entertainment of the parent organisation, Sony Corporation, has brought forth the uninstall patch regarding the copy-restriction software containing the "rootkit" available on 52 albums published by Sony. Now that patch has a vulnerability allowing hackers and virii to exploit and...
- Tags: antivirus, fair usage, government, Internet, microsoft, off-topic, piracy, privacy, rootkit, sony, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Corp., swgoldwire2546, technology, virus
- Discussion threads 2005-11-19
- A Week of Controversy
- Another day, another week, another thread to concoct and concept. Last week was a crazy one for the TechRepublic and CNET crews concerning Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and its parent company, Sony Corporation.The threaded blog sphere lit up concerning the "rootkit" implanted in select compact discs albums that Sony...
- Tags: anti-piracy, antivirus, CD, Microsoft Windows, rootkit, sony, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Corp., swgoldwire2546, windows
- Discussion threads 2005-11-15
- Sony tests anti-CD burning technology
- No more burning CD's11:27 AM May 30 As part of its mounting United States rollout of content-enhanced and copy-protected CDs, Sony BMG is testing technology that bars consumers from making additional copies of burned CD-R discs. Since March the company has released at least 10 commercial titles - more than...
- Tags: Black Panther, CD, cd burning, digital-rights management, disc, hardware, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-06-03
Additional Resources
- Sony-BMG Blog site now GONE...
- On Friday 12.09.2005 when I last checked the Sony BMG blog site regarding the announcement of the software to remove the Sony "rootkit" I mean Copy Protection "software"... was up. I checked for it today....GONE. What's nearly as hard to find: (for casual browsers...) The page that contains the download...
- Tags: Bertelsmann Music Group, blog, Mr. Tinker, network security, security, software, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-14
- Rootkits: Digital Rights Management, Spyware, and Security
- Sony-BMG and other record companies face some hard decisions. The Internet is transforming the distribution and promotion of music, and the industry is searching intently for new business models. Many in the industry see DRM as part of the industry's future. For these DRM advocates, Sony-BMG's misadventures with CD copy...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Internet, Bertelsmann Music Group, CD, Digital-rights Management, Industry, Rootkit, Spyware, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2006-01-23
- Rootkit redux: Sony doesn't learn from history
- I WOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE SLAMMING SONYThe 'software company' tells you what you need to do,you check with your legal team,and then do it.Somebody has to have a truth sensing ability because the computer industry is loaded with lies.That's OK I haveI don't buy their stuff.Me neither.Two public rootkit fiascoes...
- Tags: Rootkits, PRODUCTIVITY, BALTHOR, rootkit, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-30
- Bertelsmann Mediasystems Implements Userfriendly "One-Step Business" at BMG
- Even famous musicians need to be marketed. For every new CD that comes on the market, a huge promotion is launched to ensure that the CD achieves spectacular sales in the shortest time possible. The sale of marketing items is fully supported throughout all phases of the sales cycle at...
- Tags: Bertelsmann AG, Bertelsmann Music Group, CD, SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales Tools, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing
- Case studies
- BEA Systems Case Study: Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Sony Pictures Entertainment SPE is a global organization that encompasses motion picture production and distribution and distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries. SPE wanted to reduce costs and increase operational efficiency by consolidating Web applications from across Sony at two data centers. SPE worked closely with BEA on the...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Sony Pictures, Data Centers, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- Taking Music to the Next Level of Mobility and Personalization
- Sony StreamMan is an exciting new service that responds to a rapidly increasing consumer demand for personal music entertainment on the mobile phone. As well as offering instant access to a vast library of music on demand, StreamMan also allows users to download songs to their mobile phones, access special...
- Tags: Mobile, Mobility, Cell Phone, Personalization, Alcatel, Entertainment, Music, Sony StreamMan, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2005-03-01
- PlayStation 2 mainboard and the PlayStation 3 Blu-Ray drive (Sony PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2 hardware side-by-side)
- Bigger IS BetterSize does matter... but in the end it's not what you got its how you use it.I purchased the PS3 primarily for the movie entertainment, both Blu Ray Disc and the planned on-line movie downloads. Expectations for Sony's plan for an on-line movie download service is high. Albeit...
- Tags: Blu-ray drive, entertainment, feedback, game, hardware, mdandrea@..., ps3 review, Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3
- Discussion threads 2007-03-02
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