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, ...

Record companies' efforts to protect CDs against digital copying are beginning to draw scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that the plans might violate the law. On Friday, Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., sent ...

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.

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 ...

New CD copyright-protection technologies will overcome consumer objections to previous methods and spur adoption by music companies, their advocates contend. “Two years ago, the music companies wanted ...

For three straight holiday seasons, record executives say, Internet piracy has been the Grinch of the music business, undercutting album sales and labels’ year-end profits. So how did the labels open ...

Digital rights activists are angered by evidence that promotional versions of Michael Jackson's CD "Rock Your World" will not be playable in PC CD-ROM drives. Sony's decision to bend the standard CD ...

In a first for the United States, a major record company plans Tuesday to release a CD that’s been encrypted to stop digital copying. Universal Music Group’s CD--”More Fast and Furious,” a movie ...

BMG became the first of the five major music companies to license SunnComm’s MediaMax CD copy-protection technology for use on commercial CDs. BMG declined to say when MediaMax CDs would be available ...

Does anybody have any experience with installing software on Virtual PC that has the CD-cops protection scheme?<BR><BR>After I install and try to launch the program for the first time, the CD starts ...

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 ...