[DMCA-Activists] EFF and Sony BMG Reach Preliminary Settlement

[Seth Johnson]

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Subject: EFF Media Advisory: EFF and Sony BMG Reach Preliminary
Settlement
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:14:05 -0800
From: EFF Press <address@hidden>
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Advisory

For Immediate Release: Thursday, December 29, 2005

Contact:

Cindy Cohn
  Legal Director
  Electronic Frontier Foundation
  address@hidden
  +1 415 436-9333 x108 (office), +1 415 307-2148 (cell)

Corynne McSherry
  Staff Attorney
  Electronic Frontier Foundation
  address@hidden
  +1 415 436-9333 x122

Kurt Opsahl
  Staff Attorney
  Electronic Frontier Foundation
  address@hidden
  +1 415 436 9333 x106

Fred von Lohmann
  Senior Intellectual Property Attorney
  Electronic Frontier Foundation
  address@hidden
  +1 415 436-9333 x123 (office), +1 415 215-6087 (cell)

EFF and Sony BMG Reach Preliminary Settlement over Flawed DRM 

New York - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) joined in the
preliminary settlement agreement with Sony BMG this week to
settle several class action lawsuits filed due to Sony's use of
flawed and overreaching computer program in millions of music CDs
sold to the public. The proposed terms of settlement have been
presented to the court for preliminary approval and will likely
be considered in a hearing set for January 6, 2005 in federal
court in New York City. 

"The proposed settlement will provide significant benefits for
consumers who bought the flawed CDs," said EFF Legal Director
Cindy Cohn. "Under the terms, those consumers will get what they
thought they were buying--music that will play on their computers
without restriction or security risk. EFF is continuing
discussions with Sony BMG, however, and believes that there is
more they can do to protect music lovers in the future." 

"Sony agreed to stop production of these flawed and ineffective
DRM technologies," noted EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. "We hope
that other record labels will learn from Sony's hard experience
and focus more on the carrot of quality music and less on the
stick of copy protection." 

For this advisory:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_12.php#004287

About EFF

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organization working to protect rights in the digital world.
Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry
and government to support free expression and privacy online. EFF
is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most
linked-to websites in the world at http://www.eff.org/ 


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