businessweek.com — Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program (*cough* spyware and rootkits *cough*) on consumers' computers.
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scottcbpDec 19, 2006
How much money do you think it will cost Sony to deal with false claims?
reddevil3Dec 20, 2006
Haters......Sony is so 'funky fresh'. You can't say the same about MS and Nintendo.
osiriscky3Dec 20, 2006
lolz. U winz free rootkitz 4 lyfe
daridaveDec 20, 2006
@fletchowns Couldn't have said it better myself. Everything I ever had SONY branded broke down with time. I keep noticing that whatever they do, I can find better or equal quality from other brands at better prices, so I really have given up on the SONY brand for electronics. The latest wave of negative news, day after day, really doesn't help.Movies, sweet. Music, okay (or 'bad' if you consider the root kit). But everything else? Sorry SONY, I'm just not stupid enough.
glock22ownrDec 20, 2006
DIE SONY!!! DIE !!!!
piper999Dec 20, 2006
Losing the portable audio business after declaring that all of their customers are thieves was the result of Sony getting into the content provision side of things with music and movie companies and as far as I'm concerned marked the beginning of the end for them.
memobugDec 21, 2006
Where's the apology?
kuallaDec 21, 2006
damn I have one of those CD's that actually caused damage to my PC, I wonder if this only applies to Texas and Cali residents???