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Spesoft Free CD Ripper 4.2

A quality application, aimed at providing easy, stable, and fast CD copying to WMA, MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG, and FLAC audio formats. Easy... Read more

2 September, 2011

CD copying war heats up

...6 Mar: In the next stage of the battle to prevent illegal CD copying, digitally protected discs are being released with songs that won't... Read more

10 April, 2002 by ZDNet UK

Can Bertelsmann stop CD copying

Bertelsmann's BMG record label will add anti-copying software to promo CDs. The company is trying to prevent music being leaked on the Net before its official release Read more

9 April, 2002 by Jim Hu

Label to identify copy-protected CDs

Following controversy over copy-protection mechanisms on some CDs that prevent the music from being played on PCs, a music industry body thinks it has the solution Read more

19 September, 2002 by Desiree Everts

The week in review: Slammer dunks the Internet

...lesson, UK citizens were overjoyed about ID cards, and Stelios lost the CD-copying battle Read more

31 January, 2003 by ZDNet UK

New CD protection won't play on PCs

In the next stage of the battle to prevent illegal CD copying, digitally protected discs are being released with songs that won't... Read more

6 March, 2002 by Gwendolyn Mariano

News Burst: Music industry lambasts Philips

An increasingly irritable music industry has spoken out against Philips for introducing CD-copying equipment without consulting it first about copyright abuse Read more

23 October, 1998 by Richard Barry

Music will be saved by piracy crackdown, not iTunes: study

...get a handle on file-sharing and put more stringent controls on CD copying, rather than because consumers will spend more on their music. While... Read more

19 November, 2003 by Jo Best

Pushing 'shift' draws lawsuit

...on how to disarm the SunnComm technology, which aims to block unauthorised CD copying and MP3 ripping. The technology is included on an album by... Read more

10 October, 2003 by John Borland

Real undercuts iTunes with 50p Rhapsody

...also combines custom radio and custom-CD mixing features. Rhapsody is promoting CD-copying by lowering the cost per track because music fans are keen... Read more

28 May, 2003 by Stefanie Olsen

New technology hides data inside music files

SunnComm Technologies, one of several companies developing anti-CD copying products, has licensed a new technique that can hide data, video... Read more

21 March, 2003 by John Borland

Record labels put the brakes on CD copy locks

...the previous year. The organisation blamed the drop on music downloading and CD copying. Overseas adoption of CD copy-protection technology is growing, moreover. Israel... Read more

3 September, 2002 by John Borland

Piracy blamed for drop in music sales

CD copying and song-swapping services such as Napster and Gnutella have been... Read more

16 April, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

AOL wants to lock up its CDs

...the company calls "AOL Time Warner's answer to prevention of illegal CD copying/burning," according to a posting on job listing site Monster.com... Read more

13 March, 2002 by Jim Hu

Copy lock shuts out music pirates

...to use and resell Macrovision's technology in an attempt to discourage CD copying. Macrovision also has been quietly testing copy-protected CDs on unwitting... Read more

5 September, 2001 by Gwendolyn Mariano

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