New Spyware Claim Against Sony Bmg

The Texas attorney general added a new claim to a lawsuit
charging Sony BMG Music Entertainment as Sony BMG
hide "spyware" on its compact discs.

Sony BMG secretly installed copy-protection software,
using XCP programs. This XCP programs was extremely
difficult to remove. And it is hide in about 52 popular
artists' music CD.

http://news.a.com.com/

why would sony bmg music want to do that??? i dont understand, how did it help them puttin hidden spyware on there artists music cds???

The Texas attorney general added a new claim to a lawsuit

charging Sony BMG Music Entertainment  as Sony BMG

hide "spyware" on its compact discs.

 

Sony BMG secretly installed copy-protection software,

using XCP programs. This XCP programs was extremely

difficult to remove. And it is hide in about 52 popular

artists' music CD.

 

http://news.a.com.com/

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I heard something about the Attorney General going after Sony, but I didn't realize that Sony has been accused of putting spyware on actual, hard-copy, legal CDs. That's insane.

 

Good thing I've never really been into putting my CDs into my computer for the cruddy little "extra features." Otherwise I could very well be an insanely furious person right now *hates-hates-hates spyware, especially when it's packaged with something that I paid good money for*

 

And I'm not surprised that Maddox (our AG here in Texas) is going after Sony. He's a vicious guy, but in a good way. If anybody can pee in Sony's boot (common Texas expression, cleaned up for this forum, for anybody who doesn't know), it would be this guy.