SONY anti piracy lawsuits and anti spyware software company also appeal

November 23rd news, according to foreign media reports, SONY BMG music entertainment, the use of anti piracy technology trouble in the music CD in the further escalation of the U.S. state of Texas Monday, the chief prosecutor in California and a digital rights protection organization in accordance with the new anti spyware law sued Sony BMG music entertainment, said the company installed on the CD anti piracy software on consumer computer caused a huge security threat.

Procedure specific to Sony Corp in CD on the use of XCP technology, this technology can limit the number of copies of single CD content. The Electronic Frontier Foundation in California (Electronic Frontier Foundation) said that SONY BMG should further expand propaganda and recovery of the disc, and remove the XCP software to consumers compensation costs incurred, allegedly to remove the software process is quite complex. The group filed a lawsuit against the California high court in Losangeles late Monday. To prevent music piracy, SONY BMG has used a software called XCP in some of its releases. But the software is said to change the computer program settings, so that the computer is facing the risk of malware invasion. Under pressure from the outside world, SONY BMG 16 announced the recall has been sold with XCP software music records.

Security experts said, XCP is spyware, because it can reveal the secret to the PC to play music details, and manually remove the software will cause PC drive is not available. XCP software exists only in the PC running Windows system.

Dezhou's chief prosecutor Greg - Abbott (Greg Abbott) accused SONY of BMG secret used illegal spyware on the copy protection mechanism, because the software is installed without the user's knowledge, the spy software allows users to PC are vulnerable to malicious attacks. Abbott also claimed that SONY to recall all affected CD media questioned the validity, he said on Sunday night, investigators can still buy into this CD in Austen's record stores. He said: "the people who bought the SONY CD thought they had bought the music, but they got spyware that could have damaged the computer."

Sony Corp executives refused to accept the theft of its version of the technology known as spyware.

In accordance with the laws of Texas, each of the violations of the law of the state spyware act will be compensated for up to $100 thousand. Abbott said that the number of SONY BMG in violation of the law of the state more than thousands of times, totaling up to hundreds of millions of dollars.

But Abbott also said that all confiscated fines will be turned over to Texas. Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the California law prohibits the use of fraud to collect personal authentication information, the user can claim damages to the SONY BMG through the law.