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Geoffcin
05-23-2006, 03:20 PM
A U.S. district court judge in New York signed off Monday on a proposed agreement to a class-action lawsuit filed against Sony BMG, which claimed that the company had surreptitiously installed, what amounted to, spyware on customers' computers

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nightflier
05-25-2006, 12:34 PM
Why can't they nail Sony BMG on terrorism charges? After all that's what the RIAA is trying to do to 12 year olds who want to play xbox games on their Linux boxes, right? Wasn't there a commercial that ran on TV not too long ago that equated music downloaders with terrorists?