Universal Music Group , Sony Music Entertainment and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.
Remember the time Sony Music installed a rootkit on peoples’ computers via commercially purchased CDs because hacking paying customers’ computers seemed like a good way to combat piracy?
Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for one of the programs that merely made the program’s files invisible while also installing additional software that could not be easily removed.
And then they just paid some settlements, recalled some CDs, and continued to operate as if nothing has happened. Bloody hell.
Ah Sony Music is involved.
Remember the time Sony Music installed a rootkit on peoples’ computers via commercially purchased CDs because hacking paying customers’ computers seemed like a good way to combat piracy?
Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this.
And then they just paid some settlements, recalled some CDs, and continued to operate as if nothing has happened. Bloody hell.