I just read on a German website how to beat the copy protection scheme on the new audio discs that won't read in a computer, such as Celine Dion's new disc. Apparently, there's an outer ring of ...

Universal Music Group has employed a controversial copy protection scheme on a new audio CD this week. Designed to prevent the music on the CD from being pirated, it also excludes the disc from being ...

There is one scheme that can be overcome by applying black permanent magic marker to the outer edge of your CD. Check and see if that's the way this one is protected. I think you can get more details ...

KB doc modified and reposted; more reader tipsKB document returns The now famous KB document 106882 (on copy-protected CDs that get stuck in drives) has returned from its brief vacation (see prior ...

"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.

AOL Time Warner is beginning efforts to add copy protection to CDs, underscoring the company's desire to limit unsanctioned digital distribution of its musical works. The media giant is searching for ...

An influential U.S. lawmaker stepped up his criticism Wednesday of record labels' moves to protect CDs against copying. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., approached the record industry's trade association in ...

Several class action suits were filed in New York and California during November that claimed Sony's copy-protection technology, which had come under fire earlier in the month, damaged buyers' ...