p2p news / p2pnet: Big Four Organized Music cartel member Sony BMG tried to sneak DRM spyware onto customers’ computers via music discs.

In a scandal that continues to reverberate around the world, it was caught red-handed.

Now, “A judge approved a settlement of lawsuits against the world’s second-largest music label that gives millions of consumers free song downloads to compensate them for flawed anti-piracy software on compact discs,” says the Washington Post, going on:

“According to terms of the deal, Sony BMG will let consumers who bought the CDs receive replacement discs without the anti-piracy technologies and will let them choose one of two incentive packages that provide cash or free music downloads.”

MediaMax malware made by SunnComm, based in the US, and XCP from Britain’s First 4 Internet, was hidden on Sony BMG CDs.

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See:
DRM spyware – SunnComm Dangerous DRM patch, December 7, 2005
Washington Post – N.Y. Judge OKs Sony BMG CD Settlement, May 22,
2006

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