Texas Slaps Sony BMG With New Spyware Violations
Via Greg Abbott's (Attorney General for The Great State of Texas) website.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today bolstered his pending November lawsuit against SONY BMG Music Entertainment by adding a number of new allegations that reflect harm to consumers who purchased certain compact discs (CDs).
In November, Attorney General Abbott sued the New York-based company under the state’s new spyware law of 2005, making him the first state official in the nation to bring legal action against SONY BMG for embedding illegal “spyware” in consumer products.
In new allegations today, Attorney General Abbott invoked the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The Attorney General alleges the company’s “MediaMax” technology for copy protection violates the state’s spyware and deceptive trade practices laws in that consumers who use these CDs are offered a license agreement, but even if consumers reject that agreement, files are secretly installed on their computers that pose additional security risks to those systems.
“We keep discovering additional methods SONY used to deceive Texas consumers who thought they were simply buying music,” said Attorney General Abbott. “Thousands of Texans are now potential victims of this deceptive game SONY played with consumers for its own purposes.”
posted by Fergie @ 12/21/2005 01:16:00 PM
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