Sony BMG
Green Welling is investigating Sony BMG over its XCP (Extended Copyright Protection) and Sunncomm MediaMax copy-protection scheme. It is alleged that copy-protected Sony BMG audio CDs released after January 1, 2005 contain unlawful, unauthorized and potentially damaging software that is not disclosed to the consumer when the disc is inserted in a Microsoft Windows-based personal computer. Furthermore, the software can not be un-installed or removed by the end user without considerable time, expense and expertise.
The following is a list of Audio CDs containing the XCP technology:
- A Static Lullaby, Faso Latido
- Acceptance, Phantoms
- Amerie Touch
- Art Blakey Drum Suit
- The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity?
- Bette Midler, Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
- Billy Holiday, The Great American Songbook
- Bob Brookmeyer, Bob Brookmeyer & Friends
- Buddy Jewell, Times Like These
- Burt Bacharach, At This Time
- Celine Dion, On Ne Change Pas
- Chayanne, Cautivo
- Chris Botti, To Love Again
- The Coral, The Invisible Invasion
- Cyndi Lauper, The Body Acoustic
- The Dead 60's, The Dead 60's
- Deniece Williams, This Is Niecy
- Dextor Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie
- Dion, The Essential Dion
- Earl Scruggs, I Saw The Light With Some Help From My Friends
- Elkland, Golden
- Emma Roberts, Unfabulous And More: Emma Roberts
- Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Jamboree
- Frank Sinatra, The Great American Songbook
- G3, Live In Tokyo
- George Jones, My Very Special Guests
- Gerry Mulligan, Jeru
- Horace Silver, Silver's Blue
- Jane Monheit, The Season
- Jon Randall, Walking Among The Living
- Life Of Agony, Broken Valley
- Louis Armstrong, The Great American Songbook
- Mary Mary, Mary Mary
- Montgomery Gentry, Something To Be Proud Of: The Best of 1999-2005
- Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
- Neil Diamond, 12 Songs
- Nivea, Complicated
- Our Lady Peace, Healthy In Paranoid Times
- Patty Loveless, Dreamin' My Dreams
- Pete Seeger, The Essential Pete Seeger
- Ray Charles, Friendship
- Rosanne Cash, Interiors
- Rosanne Cash, King's Record Shop
- Rosanne Cash, Seven Year Ache
- Shel Silverstein, The Best Of Shel Silverstein
- Shelly Fairchild, Ride
- Susie Suh, Susie Suh
- Switchfoot, Nothing Is Sound
- Teena Marie, Robbery
- Trey Anastacio, Shine
- Van Zant, Get Right With The Man
- Vivian Green, Vivian
The following is a list of Audio CDs containing the Sunncomm MediaMax technology:
- Amici Forever, Defined
- David Gray, Life in Slow Motion
- Foo Fighters, In Your Honor
- My Morning Jacket, Z
- Santana, All That I Am
- Sarah McLachlan, Bloom Remix Album
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