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Illinois Attorney General Targeting Sony BMG?


From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:54:53 GMT

Happy New Year, Sony BMG. :-)

[snip]

Illionois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Friday she is investigating whether Sony BMG violated privacy and consumer 
protection laws, noting that her office has requested information from the company regarding anti-piracy software it 
included on music CDs that experts have shown exposes Microsoft Windows users to security holes and computer viruses.

Madigan is the latest attorney general to target Sony BMG for the anti-piracy debacle. Last month, Texas AG Greg Abbott 
sued Sony BMG, saying its invasive software -- which installs on Windows PCs when users merely listen to one of the 
affected CDs -- violates Texas anti-spyware laws. New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Massachusetts AG Tom 
Reilly have launched similar investigations. In addition, a number of state and federal class action suits have been 
filed against Sony BMG.

[snip]

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/12/another_ag_targ.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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