A New York federal judge on Monday approved a settlement of lawsuits against the world's second-largest music label that gives millions of consumers free song downloads to compensate them for flawed anti-piracy software on compact discs. The label, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, will stop manufacturing CD software that can leave computers vulnerable to hackers. The settlement pertained to lawsuits alleging that the vulnerabilities were created by MediaMax software or XCP software.
May 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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A judge approved a settlement of lawsuits against the world’s second-largest music label that gives millions of consumers free song downloads to compensate them for flawed anti-piracy software on compact discs.
With the settlement, the label, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, will stop manufacturing CD software that can leave computers vulnerable to hackers.
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