Texas sues Sony
November 21st, 2005
Texas attorney general Greg Abbot has today filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment, alleging that the XCP DRM software violates the state's anti-spyware laws, as well as consumer protection laws.
With the Holiday season looming, all this spells very bad news for Sony and I wouldn't be surprised if their Q4 profits are hit badly by all this. I would imagine that other labels planning any such DRM scheme will shelve it given the bad publicity that First4Internet XCP has generated for Sony.
Who would have thought it though - that security would turn out to be the Achilles heel of DRM.
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November 21st, 2005 at 22:00
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