FTC spanks Sony BMG, porn operator
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Spyware and x-rated spam It's been a good day for the Federal Trade Commission, which has spanked Sony BMG for its surreptitious installation of nasty-ware and an adult Web site that - gasp - was responsible for the sending of x-rated spam.â¦
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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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Independent Music Companies are challenging the merger of SONY and BERTELSMANN (BMG) saying it would lead to a &quot;market imbalance&quot;.
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Digital music service BurnLounge, accused of running an illegal pyramid scheme, has worked out an agreement with the FTC.
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LOS ANGELES Oct 29, 2004 - 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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Universal, Sony BMG, and Warner are suing Chinese search site Baidu for distributing music under copyright.
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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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It's a Swedish smackdown: To protest Perspektiv Broadband's AllOfMP3 morality play, the Pirate Bay bans the ISP's users. In Monkey Bites.
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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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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) has fired another salvo in its ongoing spam battle, this time against porn peddlers who don&#39;t keep their smut inside the digital equivalent of a &quot;Brown Paper Wrapper.
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After a recent legal setback, a California company that claims its patents cover the streaming video technology used by adult Web sites is boosting efforts to collect money from a very different group of streaming video users: colleges and universities.    Newport Beach, Calif.-based Acacia Media Technologies Corp...
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Naughty, very naughty Online retailer Ebuyer has been caught copying content from a rival website.â¦
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LONDON - Warner Music Group Corp., Viacom Inc. and Universal Music Group are among those to have bid for BMG Music Publishing, people familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires on Friday.  German media giant Bertelsmann A.G.
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Sony BMG is the last major record company to do away with the programs, which prevent illegal copying and distribution of songs on the Internet.
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Sony BMG will start selling music downloads in the copy-protection-free MP3 format later this month in North America, as even the last holdout among the major record labels crumbled to the growing trend.
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So-called FairUse program breaks copy protection on Windows Media Player.
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Web pornmonger demands unpaid commission