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Sony BMG recalls CDs with spyware

December 4, 2005

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BY SEAN PICCOLI

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL

Sony BMG, a record label with almost 22 percent of the global market in CD sales, has admitted to hiding potentially dangerous anti-piracy software inside people's computers.

Having been busted, Sony BMG has apologized, launched a recall of CDs containing the cloaked program and offered to remove it from any infected hard drives. But the Texas attorney general is suing Sony BMG anyway, under that state's new anti-spyware law.

Even the U.S. Department of Homeland Security slapped the company: An advisory from the department's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team says the software "can pose a security threat."