Sony BMG settles case over anti-piracy software
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Sony BMG will pay $750,000 in  penalties and costs and reimburse California consumers whose  computers were harmed by anti-piracy software on some CDs sold  by the record company, California officials said on Tuesday.
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The companies settle a lawsuit in which the software giant was accused of poaching smart-phone trade secrets.
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InfoWorld - The Business Software Alliance has collected a record settlement of nearly $3.5 million from an international media firm that was using&#160;unlicensed software, the trade group announced Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES - Sony BMG Music Entertainment and online peer-to-peer software distributor Grokster are working on a new venture that is expected to offer paid and free song downloads over the Internet, sources say.
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Edging cautiously into the water where Amazon, Apple's iTunes, eMusic and other services are already frolicking, Sony BMG Music has announced plans to offer a tiny set of DRM-free tracks online... if you go to one of their brick-and-mortar stores first.
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Seeks $12m damages Record label Sony BMG is suing the maker of digital rights management (DRM) software which was accused of harming computers in 2005. The company is seeking $12m in damages to compensate for the effects of the software.â¦
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the world's second largest music company, will this month become the last of the big four majors to drop copy protection software on music downloads, also known as digital rights management (DRM).
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Warner Music Group Corp. and AnywhereCD said  they settled disputes over the scope of their agreement and  agreed on dismissing related lawsuits.
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Microsoft has agreed to settle a multimillion dollar lawsuit brought by thousands of Iowa consumers and businesses who say the company's anticompetitive practices forced them to pay inflated prices for software including Microsoft's Windows, Word and Excel.
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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 on consumers' computers.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. regulators said Tuesday that Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed to reimburse consumers up to $150 for damage to their computers from CDs with hidden anti-piracy software.
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment and online peer-to-peer software distributor Grokster are working on a new venture that is expected to offer paid and free song downloads over the Internet, sources say.
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Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group reached a tentative agreement with German media company Bertelsmann AG to acquire BMG Music Publishing for $2.05 billion in cash, a person familiar with the deal said yesterday.
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The Business Software Alliance scores a record settlement in a copyright infringement case.
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Trying to recoup its losses as a result of placing anti-piracy software on its music CDs, Sony BMG sued the company responsible for the technology, it said on Thursday.
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Wurld Media has concluded agreements with Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to facilitate the licensing of music exchanged on its peer-to-peer music network.
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Sony BMG - aka &#39;Bony&#39; - the merged music label is in talks with Grokster, the P2P software company has confirmed. Negotiations are believed to be focused on the development of a new, label-friendly P2P network.