For the last several months, consumers in ordinary record stores around the world have unwittingly been buying CDs that include technology designed to discourage them from making copies on their PCs.

Dallas, Texas February 24, 2005 — Contrary to widely held industry beliefs, U.S. consumers are not overwhelmingly antagonistic toward the concept of copy-restricted music CDs, provided these CDs come ...

Music company Sony BMG, yielding to consumer concern, said on Wednesday it was recalling music CDs containing copy-protection software that acts like virus software and hides deep inside a computer.

Two leading copy-protection technology companies announced Tuesday that they are merging, in a deal that could help speed the move of controversial copy-proof music CDs to market. Macrovision, a Santa ...

Music label BMG has licensed from SunnComm Technologies new technology designed to prevent music buyers from making unlimited digital copies of songs from its CDs. The Bertelesmann AG division, which ...

Like the title says. I've got a CD, and a CD burner. I want to copy the CD. I don't want to import the music in iTunes and burn from there, as the CD won't be recognized as the original (in song title ...

Write-protected CDs are designed to have files copied to them only once. Blank write-protected CDs are identified as CD-R discs. Using the default options in Windows, once you copy files to a CD-R and ...

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 ...

CDs aren’t exactly cutting-edge in 2025. Since the peak years around the turn of the millennium, sales have plummeted because streaming services like Spotify have taken over. But there are still times ...

An anticopying technology used by Sony Music Entertainment Inc. on music CDs sold in Europe is apparently being defeated by music lovers using simple straight lines drawn on protected CDs with ...

When you by a new CD and slip it into your computer’s optical drive to rip it, iTunes automatically queries an Internet-based database to try and guess the album’s name, artist, and the names of its ...