Sony is just a negative PR machine these days. As though their flailing PS3 wasn't costing them money enough, they've agreed to pay up to $150 to anyone affected (infected) with the DRM they saw fit to seed on some CD's in recent years.
To recap, Sony required owners of certain albums to install software for playback, software that made it easy for users' machines to get hacked, or "pwned" as the professionals say. They later released an uninstall program which also installed undisclosed software and often made the matter worse.
In terms of the settlement, Sony will be required to provide an uninstall tool (of better quality, presumably) for two years and patches to fix the security vulnerabilities they've caused. Sony has a list of infected albums you can look at. Prefix readers probably needn't worry. You most certainly don't have Celine Dion's "On Ne Change Pas"; you may have Neil Diamond's "12 Songs", and we won't begrude you that.
Ricky Martin's "Life" is labelled as having the XCP protection, but does not actually have it. Dodged a bullet there!