A lawsuit has been filed against Sony BMG over the recent discovery that Sony includes a rootkit on its music CDs.

The class action lawsuit filed against Sony BMG in California was filed by attorney Alan Himmelfarb on behalf of Californians who have purchased any Sony BMG CDs with the secret rootkit style software.

The software, provided to Sony by British company First 4 Internet, cloaks itself so that it is invisible to the average user once installed on their computer, and, it is alleged, opens up a back door so that others can take advantage of the cloaking technology to put malicious software on the user’s system. The Sony rootkit also is claimed to report back to Sony on the user’s use of the Sony product.

In addition to the lawsuit filed by Mr. Himmelfarb in Los Angeles, New York…

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