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, ...

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 ...

Warner Music Japan, a division of AOL Time Warner's record company, Warner Music Group, plans to add copyright protection to one CD title possibly later this year as part of the label's ongoing trials ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Software that makes it simple to bypass any form of anti-copying technology used to protect music CDs has been released by a computer magazine and a software company in Germany. The program exploits ...

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 ...