Sony BMG is recalling music CDs that use controversial anti-piracy software. The copyright protection software which automatically installs when a consumer inserted a music CD with the XCP digital rights management technology in their computers is designed to limit the number of copies that users can make of the CD and restrict ripping of the disk.

The software was widely criticised because it used virus-like techniques to stop illegal copies being made. Sony is also providing software to make it easy to remove the controversial program from Windows computers reports BBC