The 53-year-old former on-air radio personality heads Phoenix-based SunnComm, one of dozens of digital rights management companies aiming to thwart would-be pirates from distributing copyrighted ...

Mac users may want to check the labels on their music CDs twice, as copy-protected audio discs flooding the market may lead to serious problems when they are played on some computer systems. Since ...

The software giant has gained considerable ground over the past few months in its bid to have its audio technology loaded on every copy-protected CD sold by record labels. While labels have yet to ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. In an ironic twist last week, a moderator on the forums for copy ...

Most consumers believe that they have the right to copy CDs for personal or backup use, and are likely to react badly to the music industry's stealthy introduction of unlabelled copy-protected CDs, ...

The prevention of unauthorized copying of software and media. With regard to software, from the 1950s to the 1980s, copy protection was not a major issue. It became a problem after the advent of the ...

Other than the typical issues that come with copying so-called ‘booter’ floppies that do not use DOS but boot directly into the game, the protection track with Interlock is rather easy to spot, as ...

The latest improvement to Sony’s CD “copy protection” technology can still be defeated with sticky tape or marker pens, New Scientist has found. But Sony warns the methods could damage the discs and ...

Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) and leading Japanese independent label Avex are dropping CD copy-protection technology from their releases. By Billboard Staff TOKYO — Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) ...

I was standing in my local recordshop, and I was thinking of purchasing the new foo fighters album... I checked the back and it said that it was only designed to play in Audio players and may ...

Anything that doesn't work with my computer I'll be immediately returning to the store on the basis that it is defective. I hope everyone else does the same. Universal has said that ít'll reimburse ...

In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is a surprisingly new one, and in an earlier era of consumer software ...