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, ...

Free copies of songs from country music singer Charley Pride's latest album appeared on the Internet this week, just shortly before a version of the CD incorporating new anti-copying technology was ...

Microsoft dug its roots a little deeper into the music business Wednesday, as copy-protection company Macrovision agreed to license its Windows digital rights management technology for CDs. The ...

A European consumer group is suing major record labels Sony, EMI, BMG and Universal over a CD copy-protection technology that reportedly blocks playback of the labels’ releases on some devices.

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and BELLINGHAM, Mass. -- Hexalock, Ltd., a leader in CD copy protection technology and digital rights management solutions announced today that Image Source, a leading provider of ...

A new kind of copy-protected music CD will likely hit U.S. shelves early next year, as record label Sony BMG Music Entertainment experiments with a technology created by British developer First 4 ...

Well, some of you guys might remember how stoked I was at Tom Petty's new album "The Last DJ". I broke my RIAA boycott because of it, and ordered the CD direct from Tom's official website through his ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Some music fans are trying to fake out CD copy protection technology with the stroke of a felt-tip pen. The tactic is being used in Europe, where Sony is trying out a copy ...

Universal Music Group has employed a controversial copy protection scheme on a new audio CD this week. Designed to prevent the music on the CD from being pirated, it also excludes the disc from being ...

Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced that it has been testing a digital rights management (DRM) system called “sterile burning” and has already released 10 CD titles — about 1 million discs — with ...

It's a CD copy protection scheme that makes a lot of people sick (along with their computers), so it's fitting a virus is bringing it to at least a temporary halt. Several viruses, actually, as Sony ...