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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

When digital music became available online, through various file-sharing websites, the music industry witnessed a substantial decrease in sales. The big recording companies – EMI, Sony, Universal and ...

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 ...

Perhaps in an effort to try to calm down people who have been unable to listen copy-protected CDs on their PCs, Sony's Label Gate CDs will allow customers to decode music from the CD onto their PC.

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 ...

And so, I dutifully purchased yet another copy of Stand Up (I’d already grabbed the album from the iTunes Music Store to check out iTunes’ new video feature) and took a look. For those new to the ...

Content: Someone invested time, money, imagination, and other resources creating it, and someone owns it. Most organizations own a great deal of original content. It comes in the form of data, images, ...

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 ...