Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

Quality:

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal - Sony BMG's implementation of copy protection measures. Article “Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal” in English Wikipedia has 62.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 66 references and 13 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal”, its content was written by 299 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 347 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 159 times in English Wikipedia and cited 331 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #889 in November 2005
• Global: #4415 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3038 in November 2015
• Global: #10471 in November 2015

There are 5 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal		62.2349
2	Russian (ru) Скандал из-за руткита в DRM от Sony		31.8209
3	Korean (ko) 소니 BMG 루트킷 사건		24.2571
4	Japanese (ja) ソニーBMG製CD XCP問題		14.4524
5	Persian (fa) رسوایی روت‌کیت محافظت از تکثیر سونی		1.0921

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal		2 385 410
2	Japanese (ja) ソニーBMG製CD XCP問題		202 437
3	Korean (ko) 소니 BMG 루트킷 사건		11 834
4	Russian (ru) Скандал из-за руткита в DRM от Sony		1 939
5	Persian (fa) رسوایی روت‌کیت محافظت از تکثیر سونی		1 327

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal		9 841
2	Japanese (ja) ソニーBMG製CD XCP問題		330
3	Russian (ru) Скандал из-за руткита в DRM от Sony		221
4	Persian (fa) رسوایی روت‌کیت محافظت از تکثیر سونی		19
5	Korean (ko) 소니 BMG 루트킷 사건		15

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal		299
2	Japanese (ja) ソニーBMG製CD XCP問題		37
3	Korean (ko) 소니 BMG 루트킷 사건		6
4	Russian (ru) Скандал из-за руткита в DRM от Sony		3
5	Persian (fa) رسوایی روت‌کیت محافظت از تکثیر سونی		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal		3
2	Persian (fa) رسوایی روت‌کیت محافظت از تکثیر سونی		0
3	Japanese (ja) ソニーBMG製CD XCP問題		0
4	Korean (ko) 소니 BMG 루트킷 사건		0
5	Russian (ru) Скандал из-за руткита в DRM от Sony		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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