Sony BMG
- 🚩 When inserting a *music CD* produced by the record company into a PC, a rootkit was installed automatically that modified the operating system to interfere with CD copying and/or sent data about the user's private listening habits to Sony BMG.
While targeting copyright abuses the software itself infringed copyright by using copyleft code.
- Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Categories: entertainment
Sony Music
- 🚩 Sony Music was accused of anti-competitive price fixing to increase music CD prices together with Universal Music, Warner Music and others. They settled the case.
- Sources: web.archive.org (archived New York Times article)
Categories: entertainment
Ticketmaster
- 🚩 Ticketmaster is accused of anti-competitive practices, secret partnership with scalpers (that buy up tickets quickly just to sell them for a higher price on a secondary market), deceptive pricing, hacking a competitor's computer systems and deceptive customer communication. Ticketmaster settled some of the lawsuits or entered into plea agreements with federal prosecutors.
- Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Categories: entertainment
Universal Music
- 🚩 Universal Music was accused of anti-competitive price fixing to increase music CD prices together with Sony Music, Warner Music and others. They settled the case.
- Sources: web.archive.org (archived New York Times article)
Categories: entertainment
Warner Music
- 🚩 Warner Music was accused of anti-competitive price fixing to increase music CD prices together with Sony Music, Universal Music and others. They settled the case.
- Sources: web.archive.org (archived New York Times article)
Categories: entertainment