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 ...
Peter Jacobs faces a daunting challenge: convincing millions of music fans that he's not a policeman. The 53-year-old former on-air radio personality heads Phoenix-based SunnComm, one of dozens of ...
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 ...
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.
A court in California will this month rule on the legality of an ingenious new software package that makes perfect copies of movies on DVDs even if they are protected with the latest anti-copying ...
Boycotting such CDs is not a bad idea. I would write a letter to the label explaining why you won't be purchasing it as well. Failing that, I think you can black out the copy protection track (on the ...
Protection hardware such as USB dongles are often used to protect software from copying. Dmitry Brant, a software engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, successfully removed a 40-year-old copy ...
After two weeks of relentless criticism over its XCP copy protection software, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is pulling CDs that contain the software from store shelves. The company is also planning to ...
So teh woman picked up this CD(if it can be called that) last night. I happened to be in a MP3 encoding session at the time, so I grabbed it and chucked it in my ibook. I am encoding with itunes 3(I ...
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 ...
If you look around, there are literally dozens of DVD copy programs or rippers advertised. Most won’t back up copy protected DVDs–Pavtube DVD Ripper ($35, free demo) does. Before I go any further, let ...
Oh, for the old days when sailing the seas of piracy was as simple as hooking a couple of VCRs together with a dubbing cable. Sure, the video quality degraded with each generation, but it was so bad ...
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