The revelation 5 years ago that Sony BMG was planting a secret rootkit onto its music customers’ Windows PCs in the name of anti-piracy is seen now as one of the all-time significant events in IT ...

Sony BMG will pay $750,000 in penalties and costs and reimburse California consumers whose computers were harmed by antipiracy software on some CDs sold by the record company, California officials ...

TOKYO — 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 ...

NEW YORK Recording industry titan Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed Monday to pay $10 million and stop bribing radio stations to feature its artists in what a state official called a more ...

Landing what may be one of the most significant blows yet against Apple's iTunes, Amazon on Thursday said it would carry Sony BMG's music — providing the download service with unprotected music from ...

Several class action suits were filed in New York and California during November that claimed Sony's copy-protection technology, which had come under fire earlier in the month, damaged buyers' ...

- Nov. 6, 2003: Bertelsmann says it plans to merge its BMG music business with that of Japan's Sony in a 50-50 joint venture. - Jan. 26, 2004: A contingent of independent music labels vows to fight ...

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1 million to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for collecting data on at least 30,000 children under the age of 13 without ...

The Federal Trade Commission yesterday cleared a planned merger between Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and BMG Entertainment, removing the last major hurdle to a partnership that will create the ...

Denver — Sony BMG has formed a new music licensing deal with News Corp.'s MySpace allowing members of the popular social networking site to stream music videos and certain songs and other content in ...

The revelation 5 years ago that Sony BMG was planting a secret rootkit onto its music customers’ Windows PCs in the name of anti-piracy is seen now as one of the all-time significant events in IT ...

- November 6, 2003: Bertelsmann says it plans to merge its BMG music business with that of Japan's Sony in a 50-50 joint venture. - January 26, 2004: A contingent of independent music labels vows to ...