US judge approves Sony settlement
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Sony may start giving away free music downloads, but not by choice! Millions of people look set to get free downloads from Sony BMG as a judge provisionally approves a settlement for many lawsuits against the music maker due to their root kit.
When played on PCs, this software installed a proprietary media player and hid itself deep inside the Windows operating system. The virus-like techniques used by the anti-copying system led to a lot of bad publicity for the music maker in 2005. However, still pending are legal cases mounted by several US states over Sony BMG’s anti-piracy technology.
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