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 ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of these ...

The EMI Group record label said music from its copy-protected CDs will soon play on Apple Computer's iPod digital music players, but the iPod maker disagrees. For more than a year, the anti-copying ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

<p>A fresh new year gets off to a litigious start thanks to the Belgian consumer group <a href=http://www.test-achats.be/>Test-Achats</a>, which is <a href=http://www ...

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 ...

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 ...