New York Attorney General is looking at whether Sony is honoring its promise to recall its XCP music titles One week after being sued by the Texas Attorney General, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is now in the sights of Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General for the State of New York.The New York Attorney General began looking into Sony’s use of the XCP (extended copy protection) software over the past “couple of weeks,” said Brad Maione, a spokesman for Spitzer’s office.More recently, Spitzer has dispatched investigators to see whether or not Sony is honoring its promise to recall its 52 XCP music titles from music sellers. “We’re aware of the situation and we’re taking a look at it,” said Maione. “We’re trying to see if they’re still on the shelves.” Maione declined to say whether or not his office was planning legal action against Sony.Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sued Sony last week, accusing the media company of violating his state’s 2005 antispyware law by distributing the software on music CDs from artists like Celine Dion and Frank Sinatra.XCP is also the subject of a California class action lawsuit against Sony by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group based in San Francisco. Created to limit the number of copies that Sony customers could make of their CDs, XCP uses special “rootkit” cloaking techniques to disguise its presence on a PC, and is extremely difficult to remove. It is also considered a security risk by many computer experts and is treated as spyware by many security vendors. Earlier this month, hackers wrote malicious Trojan software that used XCP’s cloaking capabilities to hide itself on affected computers.After weeks of unrelenting criticism over its use of the software, Sony eventually announced plans to pull XCP CDs from store shelves and launched a program (http://www.upsrow.com/sonybmg/) to allow its customers to exchange their music for CDs that did not have the copy-protection software installed.REFERENCES: Texas, EFF suits target Sony’s XCP, Nov. 21, 2005 Sony pulls copy-protected CDs from shelves, Nov. 15, 2005 Technology Industry