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CD Copying War Heats Up
News Wed 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 play on PCs Mon 25 Mar: Microsoft researchers jump into the tussle between Hollywood and hardware makers...
[April 10, 2002, 11:55]
Can Bertelsmann Stop CD Copying?
News BMG Entertainment, the major record company owned by German media giant Bertelsmann, said it will begin this month to protect promotional releases of its CDs against copying. The move does not signal a companywide decision to place anti-copying...
[April 9, 2002, 8:45]
Restraints Relaxed In CD Anti-copying Tech
News Earlier this year, SunnComm, Fahrenheit Entertainment and MusicCity Records settled a lawsuit stemming from a Charley Pride album, the first known CD released in the United States to incorporate anti-copying technology.
[April 16, 2002, 12:17]
Piracy Blamed For Drop In Music Sales
News CD copying and song-swapping services such as Napster and Gnutella have been blamed for a significant drop in worldwide music sales. While general economic problems were one reason behind the decline, the IFPI insisted that the illegal copying of...
[April 16, 2002, 16:27]
New Technology Hides Data Inside Music Files
News SunnComm Technologies, one of several companies developing anti-CD copying products, has licensed a new technique that can hide data, video, software or an identifying watermark inside music files. Record labels consistently say that they want a...
[March 21, 2003, 8:25]
AnyReader
Downloads AnyReader is great for copying files from scratched CD/DVDs or defective floppy/hard disks. Effectively copies corrupted data from any type of disks or erroneous connection if the standard copying methods reject the process.
[March 10, 2008, 16:01]
Copy-protected CD Hacked--or Is It?
News 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 released in US stores on Tuesday.
[May 16, 2001, 8:48]
Copy Protection Takes Stealth Approach
News Unlike existing copy-protection schemes, which prevent CD burners from copying a disk, SmarteCD allows the user to burn a copy of the disc, explained company president Bala Vishwanath. Software makers have tried all sorts of heavy-handed measures...
[June 28, 2002, 12:06]
UK Buyers Fume Over Copy-protected CD
News Complaints about anti-copying technology have forced a record label to issue CD replacements for angry consumers--another setback for the music industry's stuttering campaign against record piracy. Universal Music Group has gone the furthest in its...
[November 20, 2001, 9:18]
Pushing 'shift' Draws Lawsuit
News Princeton PhD student John "Alex" Halderman published a paper on his Web site on Monday that gave detailed instructions on how to disarm the SunnComm technology, which aims to block unauthorised CD copying and MP3 ripping.
[October 10, 2003, 14:40]
CD Copyright Protection System On The Way
News The new system will prevent what the companies term the "casual copying" of CDs using dual-CD systems or CD-Recordable drives. US companies Macrovision and TTR Technologies have announced a partnership to develop a copy protection system to prevent...
[December 13, 1999, 11:49]
AOL Wants To Lock Up Its CDs
News The media giant is searching for a senior project manager to lead a software initiative that 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.
[March 13, 2002, 10:46]
New CDs Designed To End 'ripping'
News Unlike previous anti-copying measures, this plan will place two versions of an album on a single disc: one in standard CD form, modified so that it can't be transferred to a computer hard drive, and another in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio...
[September 28, 2001, 14:25]
Copy Protection Broken By Hitting 'shift'
News Under normal circumstances, the anti-piracy software is automatically loaded onto a Windows machine whenever the Hamilton album is run in a computer's CD drive, making traditional copying or MP3 ripping impossible.
[October 8, 2003, 8:50]
DiscKeeper BlackBox
Downloads One-to-one copying of the CD is also prevented. But copying them using Save as, Cut, Copy, Paste, Print, Email forwarding etc is blocked, making your file a truly read-only document. A burning software which is used to protect data files like PDF...
[January 27, 2007, 13:16]
Snaps, Crackles And Pops Aim To Stop CD Piracy
News Although the ruling helped protect the legality of MP3 players, it called into question whether copying a CD to a hard drive is in fact protected by law, even solely for personal use, some lawyers said.
[July 19, 2001, 14:45]
Label To Identify Copy-protected CDs
News A music industry group has proposed a logo to identify CDs that include anti-copying features, saying the feature could help allay consumer concerns over the technology. The music industry is looking to copy controls to stem digital copying, which...
[September 19, 2002, 7:55]
HP Dragged Through German Courts Over Music Copyright
News Bynoe says that this sort of levy is unfair and does not take account of legitimate CD copying. Someone could be using this for legitimate reasons and so could be punished for the illegitimate copying of others," he says.
[November 24, 2000, 16:25]
Universal Copy-protected CD Shuns Media Players
News It's not the first time that a CD has hit the market with built-in technology that bars consumers from copying songs to their computers and distributing them online. In a letter sent to retailers explaining the disc -- and warning of potential...
[December 19, 2001, 11:32]
Real Undercuts ITunes With 50p Rhapsody
News Rhapsody is promoting CD-copying by lowering the cost per track because music fans are keen on the capability. The company said it promoted CD-copying earlier this year with 49 cent tracks and found that CD-burning activity increased by more than...
[May 28, 2003, 15:17]
