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  • Apple, Amazon may hold future of DRM-free music

    Sales of unprotected music at retailers could help determine whether record industry adopts open MP3s.

  • Music industry sues P2P firm LimeWire

    After months of issuing warnings, the music industry finally made good on its threat to file suit against peer-to-peer software company LimeWire.

  • With settlement, Kazaa casts off its pirate garb

    A multimillion-dollar settlement is putting Kazaa on the straight and narrow, but it might not be enough to put the file-sharing service on the road to recovery.

  • Police arrest suspected bot herders

    Police in London, acting in conjunction with Finnish law enforcement authorities, arrested three suspected virus writers on Tuesday.

  • Rootkit numbers rocketing up: McAfee

    Rootkits, used by hackers to hide malicious software, are on the rise and becoming more complex, according to security company McAfee.

  • Homeland Security official suggests outlawing rootkits

    The best way to deal with rootkits is to outlaw them, at least when it comes to such mishaps as the Sony BMG Music Entertainment fiasco, that's what an official from the Department of Homeland Security suggested on Thursday.

  • EMI considers opening its DRM to inspection

    The EMI Group is reviewing a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to allow reverse engineering of its digital rights management (DRM) software, EMI said on Friday.

  • Sony BMG joins iTunes Australia

    Sony BMG has finally jumped on the iTunes bandwagon, with the music giant today confirming it had added its roster of artists to Apple's Australian on-line music store.

  • Anti-spyware guidelines get final version

    A coalition of software companies have agreed on standard methods for identifying and combating spyware, those unwelcome downloads that have plagued Internet users with pop-up ads and other annoyances.

  • Symantec provides hiding place for hackers

    Symantec has released an update to its popular Norton SystemWorks to fix a security problem that could be abused by cybercriminals to hide malicious software.

  • Sony settles 'rootkit' class action lawsuit

    Sony BMG has struck a deal with the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit over copy-restriction software it used in music CDs, according to a settlement document filed at a New York court.

  • Patches out for IE holes, Sony-related issue

    Microsoft on Tuesday provided a fix for a "critical" security flaw in Windows that is being exploited in online attacks against Internet Explorer users.

  • Sony fixes security hole in CDs, again

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

  • destra backs Kazaa shutdown

    An Australian legal music download company partnered with major record labels has backed the blocking of Kazaa to new Australian users as a sign piracy will no longer be tolerated by authorities here.

  • 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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