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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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' ...

- 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 ...

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 Electronic Frontier Foundation is praising a U.S. District Court judge’s preliminary approval Friday of a settlement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment over two widely-criticized copy protection ...

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 ...

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 ...