US judge approves Sony settlement

The settlement was negotiated following legal action over controversial copy protection technology.

The virus-like techniques used by the anti-copying system led to a lot of bad publicity for the music maker in 2005.

 
However, still pending are legal cases mounted by several US states over Sony BMG’s anti-piracy technology.

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