Sony officially discourages the payment of real-world money for online goods, except on certain " Station Exchange " servers in EQ2, launched in July 2005.

In 2005, a similar ad campaign was launched by Sony and executed by TATS CRU in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami to market its handheld PSP gaming system.

In plotlines mirroring the negative reaction of non-commercial artists to the commercialization of the art form by companies like IBM ( and, later, Sony itself ) the Rakugaki Ōkoku series ( 2003 – 2005 ) for Sony's PlayStation 2 revolves around an anonymous hero and his magically imbued-with-life graffiti creations as they struggle against an evil king who only allows art to be produced which can benefit him.

In 2005, Sony released the film on DVD.

In November 2005, there were reports that the Extended Copy Protection rootkit included on some Sony Compact Discs included portions of the LAME library without complying with the terms of the LGPL.

The Sony CLIÉ ( pronounced " KLEE-AY " Latin ) was a series of personal digital assistants running the Palm Operating System developed and marketed by Sony from 2000 to 2005.

In the summer of 2004, Sony announced that new CLIÉs would, from then on, be manufactured and available only in Japan, and in the spring of 2005, Sony announced the total termination of its CLIÉ line of products.

Publicly traded Xybernaut tried forging alliances with companies such as IBM and Sony in order to make wearable computing widely available, but in 2005 their stock was delisted and the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid financial scandal and federal investigation.

By 2005, Sony had relaxed the restrictions in its SonicStage software to allow unrestricted digital transfers to and from Hi-MD and the computer.

Also on September 6, 2005, a bare-bones UMD of Toy Story was released for the Sony PlayStation Portable.

Three new songs were released in late July 2005 as part of the soundtrack album to the Sony film Stealth.

In November 2005, Sony announced that its remaining DAT machine models would be discontinued the following month.

Although Sony Pictures Television announced that the show was renewed for the 2004 – 2005 TV season, Lake decided not to continue with the show, opting to spend more time with her family and having relocated to Los Angeles.

In 2009, " We Are the Champions " was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and was voted the world's favourite song in a 2005 Sony Ericsson world music poll.

Sony introduced another camcorder cassette format called MicroMV, but consumer interest was low due to the proprietary nature of the format and limited support for anything but low-end Windows video editors, and Sony shipped the last MicroMV unit in 2005.

* SMARTBOMB: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution, a 2005 book about the battle between Sony and Microsoft during the sixth generation of video game consoles

( See the 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal.

On April 8, 2005, a partnership of Comcast, Sony and several merchant banks bought United Artists and its parent, MGM, for a total of $ 4. 8 billion.

The station won the Sony Radio Academy Award for Station Sound in 2003, was nominated for the Promo Award in 2004, and in 2005 received a Silver for the Short-Form award, plus nominations in the Speech Award and Digital Terrestrial Station Of The Year Award.

* 2005 – 2011 L Tower and Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Redevelopment – Toronto, Canada

* Another Day ( Sony, 2005 )

They released a concert DVD in 2004 on Hydra Records, played the Viper Room in West Hollywood in 2005, and performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri in 2006-07.

Joel Dorn later collaborated on the Don McLean career retrospective Rearview Mirror released in 2005 on Dorn ’ s own label Hyena Records.

* 1921 – Eddie Barclay, French producer ( Barclay Records ) ( d. 2005 )

In 2005 Welcome To Frost Angeles was released on Thump Records, which was produced almost entirely by Frost and his son, Scoop De ' Ville.

On June 27, 2005, Nike issued a statement apologizing to Minor Threat, Dischord Records, and their fans for the " Major Threat " campaign and said that all promotional artwork ( print and digital ) that they could acquire were destroyed.

* 2005: Itstrumental ( Female Fun Records )

In early 2005, she announced she would be leaving Jive Records to start her own record label.

In 2005, he signed to Dave Matthews's label, ATO Records, and has released five full-length albums.

In 2005, guitarist Mike Mushok claimed during a deposition in Toledo, Ohio that Staind avoided any contact with Stainbrook because they were not made aware of promises a Geffen Records executive made to Stainbrook on their behalf during a 1999 licensing negotiation.

* Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The Second Psychedelic Era, 1976-1995 Rhino Records ( 30 August 2005 )

During her tenure with Epic Records, Amos also released a retrospective collection titled Tales of a Librarian ( 2003 ) through her former label, Atlantic Records ; a two-disc DVD set Fade to Red ( 2006 ) containing most of Amos's solo music videos, released through the Warner Bros. reissue imprint Rhino ; a five disc box set titled A Piano: The Collection ( 2006 ), celebrating Amos's 15 year solo career through remastered album tracks, remixes, alternate mixes, demos, and a string of unreleased songs from album recording sessions, also released through Rhino ; and numerous official bootlegs from two world tours, The Original Bootlegs ( 2005 ) and Legs & Boots ( 2007 ) through Epic Records.

This couple, who celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary June 1, 2005 ( Percy aged 105, and wife Florence 100 ), are acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as record-holders for the longest marriage for a living couple and the greatest aggregate age of a married couple.

In November 2005, Williams took home the MTV Europe Music Award for ' Best Male ', but also, entered in The Guinness Book of World Records when he announced his World Tour for 2006, selling 1. 6 million tickets in one single day.

According to the Guinness World Book of Records ( 2005 ), Aniston ( along with her female costars ) became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $ 1 million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.

* The 11th Hour – ( CD Album ) 2005 – Accession Records • ( CD ) 2005 Metropolis, Irond

In 2005, Fish signed with Snapper Music but later returned to Chocolate Frog Records.

In late 2005 Prince signed with Universal Records to release his album, 3121, on March 21, 2006 ( 3 / 21 ).

Records in 2005 show Bacup to have some of the lowest crime levels in the county, and the relative small change to Bacup's infrastructure and appearance has given the town a " historic character and distinctive sense of place ".

A second tour, in 2005, saw the band headline the 20-city Virgin College Mega Tour, playing alongside Gomez ; while the Tour was in California, the band announced that it had been dropped from Columbia Records.

In 2005 Genus Records produced a 20-track tribute to Captain Beefheart titled Mama Kangaroos-Philly Women Sing Captain Beefheart.

In 2005, Sire Records invested in Brisbane band The Veronicas who went straight to number 2 with their debut single " 4 Ever " and album " The Secret Life Of The Veronicas ".

Rolling Stone listed it as number seventeen on The Top 50 Records of 2005.