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 ...

The prevention of unauthorized copying of software or media. From the 1950s to the 1980s, software copy protection was not an issue. Vendor support for mainframes and minicomputers had always been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple Computer has denied statements made by music-giant EMI Group that Apple is nearly finished working on copy-protected CD support for the company’s popular iPod music player. EMI made the claims ...

In a statement on its Web site, Sony said customers who've already purchased the discs can exchange them, and remaining inventory will be pulled. "We share the concerns of consumers regarding these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not sure if this is Lounge or A/V material, pls move if required.<BR><BR>Is there a database online anywhere that has a list of copy protected audio CDs? I ask because I recently bought a CD and I ...

Philips, the inventor of the Compact Disc, does not expect controversial attempts by the music industry to introduce CD “copy protection” technologies to last very long, because of consumer complaints ...