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 ...

"All it takes is the shift key," Alex Halderman GS said, describing his discovery of a way to bypass the copy-prevention technique on SunnComm Technologies' new copy-protection for audio CDs on PCs.

The Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) dubbed a Senate proposal to mandate copy-protection technology as flawed and vague, but the music and movie industries showered it with praise. The Consumer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps in an effort to try to calm down people who have been unable to listen copy-protected CDs on their PCs, Sony's Label Gate CDs will allow customers to decode music from the CD onto their PC.

Oh, for the old days when sailing the seas of piracy was as simple as hooking a couple of VCRs together with a dubbing cable. Sure, the video quality degraded with each generation, but it was so bad ...

If you look around, there are literally dozens of DVD copy programs or rippers advertised. Most won’t back up copy protected DVDs–Pavtube DVD Ripper ($35, free demo) does. Before I go any further, let ...

After two weeks of relentless criticism over its XCP copy protection software, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is pulling CDs that contain the software from store shelves. The company is also planning to ...

Thou shalt not offend law-abiding computer gamers with frivolous strictures, I think that’s a commandment somewhere. Whether CD/DVD copy protection tool SecuROM counts as frivolous, feckless, or ...