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...home page. The latest version adds a function to better deal with copy-protected CDs. Also new is built-in OGG support, and the program... Read more

28 October, 2011

Label releases copy-protected CD with Pride

...Pride is trying to sell a new method of thwarting file traders: copy-protected CDs. Nashville-based, Music City Records is betting that the technology... Read more

15 May, 2001 by Gwendolyn Mariano

Label to identify copy-protected CDs

...to protect its product from mass copying and digital piracy," Berman said. Copy-protected CDs are becoming more popular overseas, but US labels have been... Read more

19 September, 2002 by Desiree Everts

Sites spotlight reports of copy-protected CDs

A handful of Web sites are popping up to report sightings of copy-protected CDs, and already it's clear that there is far more... Read more

13 November, 2001 by John Borland

Day of action to protest against copy-protected CDs

...a result. Record companies have also created the ironic situation of selling copy-protected CDs, but at the same time marketing MP3 memory sticks that... Read more

5 October, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Macrovision to use Microsoft anti-piracy technology

...its new relationship with Microsoft could help diminish labels' reluctance to release copy-protected CDs in the United States, because it would allow consumers more... Read more

24 April, 2003 by John Borland

Sony rootkit farce continues

...a new security risk on Friday related to Sony BMG Music Entertainment copy-protected CDs, which could expose computers to attack. This security flaw dealt... Read more

21 November, 2005 by John Borland

Sony offers to replace rootkit CDs

...hidden, spyware-type file on his computer to the CD. Other XCP copy-protected CDs include new releases by Neil Diamond, Celine Dion, Natasha Bedingfield... Read more

16 November, 2005 by Karen Gomm

Royalty dispute confuses CD copy-protection

A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other types of music discs is helping stall the... Read more

13 January, 2004 by John Borland

Copy protection broken by hitting 'shift'

...Anthony Hamilton CD is the first release in this new generation of copy-protected CDs that come preloaded with these "second session" tracks designed for... Read more

8 October, 2003 by John Borland

Copy-proof CDs flood Europe

...Morgan analyst Sterling Auty, who predicted that the first big shipment of copy-protected CDs in the United States could come from Arista Records as... Read more

3 April, 2003 by John Borland

New technology hides data inside music files

...not quite ready for prime time. Typically, labels have been concerned that copy-protected CDs have not worked in all CD players, have been incompatible... Read more

21 March, 2003 by John Borland

Can Microsoft win the media format war?

...rather than the rule. However, as labels have increased their interest in copy protected CDs, they have increasingly looked to this second session as a... Read more

4 February, 2003 by Joe Wilcox

Antipiracy foes reach agreement

...anticopying standards on PC and electronics makers to regulating the sale of copy-protected CDs. The three groups are the Recording Industry Association of America... Read more

15 January, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Consumers attack CD copy protection

...to react badly to the music industry's stealthy introduction of unlabelled copy-protected CDs, according to a new survey. In a series of US... Read more

29 October, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

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