Hey music fans, you’re in luck today. Sony’s rootkit lawsuit has completed and Sony is prepared to deliver to all its beloved customers some musical fun. The settlement requires that Sony distribute, “nonprotected replacement CD, free downloads of music from that CD and additional cash payments,” to name a few of the rewards. Of the lot, free downloads are of the most interesting since one of the three services named is that of the iTunes Music Store.

Sony stated it was “pleased” with the results of the lawsuit which is a bit ironic since it’ll be sporting some checks Apple’s way for the mass of iTMS downloads. SvenOnTech encourages anyone that purchased a Sony BMG contaminated CD after August 1, 2003, to get your settlement reward from iTunes and not from any other avenue. This will send a message to Sony that, one, iTMS is the better music store for downloads (Sony plans its second try at online music this summer,) and two, that CDs are NOT the place for DRM. If the millions of people that were effected by this rootkit Sony installed on many poor Windows users computers purchase via Apple’s store, Sony may get a larger message that in the end, it may not be pleased with after all.

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