BMG? That stands for "Big Mistake, Guys," right? Add The Electronic Frontier Foundation to the list of parties suing Sony BMG Music Entertainment over its much maligned digital rights management misstep (see "Sony reconsiders policy on hiring 'reformed' hackers," "Sony DRM: You can look but you can't touch," "Sorry about those secret files; what we meant to install were these secret files," "Quoted," "Find out who programmed the rootkit DRM and send Qrio to kill him," "Rootkits -- serves those Windows losers ri ... hey, what the ...?," "And we would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids," "Sony inducted into FUBAR Hall of Fame," "Let's see -- Secret installation? Check. Hidden changes? Check. Security breach? Check. Dangerous uninstall? Check. Now what was ... oh, yeah. Stolen code? Check" and "Sony seeks treatment for severe chronic pain" ). Earlier this week the digital rights activist group sued Sony BMG, demanding that the record label repair the damage done by anti-piracy technology bundled on millions of its audio CDs. "Music fans should not have to install potentially dangerous, privacy-intrusive software on their computers just to listen to music which they have legitimately purchased," said EFF legal director Cindy Cohn. "Regular CDs have a proven track record; no one has been exposed to viruses or spyware by playing a regular audio CD on a computer. Why should legitimate customers be guinea pigs for Sony BMG's experiments?"
In its suit, the EFF demands the following of Sony:
* Sony should give consumers refunds, instead of merely exchanging the discs.
* Sony should conduct a marketing campaign to inform consumers of the problems.
* Sony should rewrite its licensing agreements, which at this point do not disclose some of the discs' features.
* And Sony should give consumers the ability to take the software off their computers, which they are now unable to do.
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