http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051111/2601/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:10:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051111/2601/#comment-46118 Make You Go Hmm: » Sony BMG swiftly settles class action lawsuit Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:49:42 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051111/2601/#comment-46118 [...] Those pesky rootkit infested CDs turned out to be an expensive lesson for Sony BMG. If the deal is approved the consumer payback option looks like the following: Under terms of the settlement, consumers who purchased disks programmed with the rootkit can get a free replacement, $7.50 in cash, and a free download of one of 200 Sony BMG albums from one of three music-download sites, including Apple Computer’s (AAPL) iTunes. Audiophiles who don’t want to bother with a small check can forgo the cash in favor of three free album downloads. Consumers who bought CDs in 2003 and 2004, containing earlier versions of the copy-protection software, are offered free downloads of their disks’ content. [...] […] Those pesky rootkit infested CDs turned out to be an expensive lesson for Sony BMG. If the deal is approved the consumer payback option looks like the following: Under terms of the settlement, consumers who purchased disks programmed with the rootkit can get a free replacement, $7.50 in cash, and a free download of one of 200 Sony BMG albums from one of three music-download sites, including Apple Computer’s (AAPL) iTunes. Audiophiles who don’t want to bother with a small check can forgo the cash in favor of three free album downloads. Consumers who bought CDs in 2003 and 2004, containing earlier versions of the copy-protection software, are offered free downloads of their disks’ content. […]

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