Sony/BMG the final episode
Girard Gibs and Kamber and Associates sued Sony BMG, First 4 Internet and SunnComm International last month in regard to the Sony rootkit mess.
SunbeltBLOG has obtained a copy of a preliminary settlement that was filed today seeking judicial approval for a settlement in the Sony case.
The proposed settlement is as follows:
Under the terms of the settlement, Defendants agree to:
• stop manufacturing SONY BMG CDs with XCP software (“XCP CDs”) and SONY BMG CDs with MediaMax software (“MediaMax CDs”);
• immediately recall all XCP CDs;
• provide software to update and uninstall XCP and MediaMax content protection software from consumers’ computers;
• ensure that ongoing fixes to all SONY BMG content protection software are readily available to consumers;
• implement consumer-oriented changes in operating practices with respect to all CDs with content protection software that SONY BMG manufactures in the next two years;
• waive specified provisions currently contained in XCP and MediaMax software End-User Licensing Agreements (“EULAs”);
• refrain from collecting personal information about users of XCP CDs or MediaMax CDs without their affirmative consent; and
• provide additional settlement benefits to Settlement Class Members including cash payments, “clean” replacement CDs without content protection software, and free music downloads.
Read the full pdf on their site