Sony Rootkit Class Action Lawsuit Settled

December 30th, 2005 Sony finally settles the class action lawsuit filed in California caused by their highly controversial decision to install a rootkit for DRM protection of their music CD’s. If you are a Sony CD customer read the full details below to claim your rights.

June 28th, 2006 Sometime back Sony BMG released DRM rootkit software. At that time Sony insisted that no one should care about the Sony BMG rootkits because most people had no clue what rootkits were.

November 19th, 2005 Sony's infamous rootkit based DRM software has been at the center of much attention for the last few week. That are facing a class action lawsuit.

November 11th, 2005 A class action lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment has been filed in California, and more lawsuits are expected as lawyers enter the Sony Rootkit copy protection software fiasco. Attorney Alan Himmelfarb filed a suit in Los Angeles County Court last week on behalf of Alexander Guevara.

November 16th, 2005 Copy-Protection recently came to limelight as Sony used DRM technology to copy-protect its CD's which makes them vulnerable to viruses and malware. This website allows you to search for music CD in Amazon database which do not have any kind of copy-protection enabled.

July 27th, 2006 Andy Patrizio learned the hard way that Windows Genuine Advantage can be a disadvantage in disguise and all without any fault of his own. Such cases apparently flies in the face of Microsoft assertion that only a handful of genuine false positives have been identified.

July 18th, 2006 Another lawsuit has been filed, in U.S. District Court in Seattle, against Microsoft over Windows Genuine Advantage, alleging that the anti-piracy tool is spyware.

November 22nd, 2005 We bring to you the best of the articles across Taragana Blog Network for the fortnight ending 20th November 2005. It was tougher than we thought as we had a hard-time creating a small list.

December 11th, 2005 Google, Inc. has been sued by AIT, a "two-time" INC 500 Company, who has advertised with Google for years, as the representative plaintiff in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

June 30th, 2006 A computer user, Los Angeles resident Brian Johnson, is suing Microsoft Corp. over the company's Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool, alleging that it violates laws against spyware.

August 9th, 2006 The Sony mylo (short for "my life online") is a nifty handheld device that will allow you to access a fun set of features from a WiFi network. With 1GB of memory you can store music and photos, browse the web, or use email and IM (with QWERTY keyboard).

August 16th, 2005 The odds are against Merck & Co. prevailing in a wrongful-death civil Vioxx lawsuit being tried in Texas, an analyst at Prudential Equity Group says.

October 16th, 2008 Are you a bookie (pardon the pun)? If you are one then you must have been aware of the painstaking process of reading a whole e-book at the internet sitting straight on the chair. The next generation e-book readers have come up to help us.

October 2nd, 2007 It is all about iPhone firmware update 1.1.1. This new firmware update from Apple disables most of the SIM unlocking methods that were used to allow the iPhone on non-AT&T network or simply use the iPhone without subscribing to AT&T.

November 19th, 2008 As things are shaping up, Sony isn’t too keen to bring out a particular gift for this Christmas but a whole series of goodies ranging from wireless headphones to speakers to ear buds and etc. We went through their features and let us give you the details now at Gadgetophilia.com