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    Sony BMG Music Entertainment said on Friday that it will suspend production of CDs with copy-protection technology that has been exploited by virus writers to try to hide their malicious code on PCs.

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    Sony BMG is replacing a patch for its CD copy protection software after Princeton University researchers found a security flaw in the update.

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    Antivirus companies are considering protecting their customers from the digital rights management software used by Sony on some CDs.

  • New CD copy-lock technology nears market

    A new kind of copy-protected music CD will likely hit U.S. shelves early next year, as record label SonyBMG experiments with a technology created by British developer First 4 Internet, according to sources familiar with the companies.

  • Who has the right to control your PC?

    Sony BMG Music Entertainment opened a rather ugly can of worms when it started selling copy-protected compact discs that planted so-called rootkit software on computers that played them.

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