Most consumers believe that they have the right to copy CDs for personal or backup use, and are likely to react badly to the music industry's stealthy introduction of unlabelled copy-protected CDs, ...

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 ...

Microsoft dug its roots a little deeper into the music business Wednesday, as copy-protection company Macrovision agreed to license its Windows digital rights management technology for CDs. The ...

A European consumer group is suing major record labels Sony, EMI, BMG and Universal over a CD copy-protection technology that reportedly blocks playback of the labels’ releases on some devices.

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and BELLINGHAM, Mass. -- Hexalock, Ltd., a leader in CD copy protection technology and digital rights management solutions announced today that Image Source, a leading provider of ...

For three straight holiday seasons, record executives say, Internet piracy has been the Grinch of the music business, undercutting album sales and labels’ year-end profits. So how did the labels open ...

Digital rights activists are angered by evidence that promotional versions of Michael Jackson's CD "Rock Your World" will not be playable in PC CD-ROM drives. Sony's decision to bend the standard CD ...

Well, some of you guys might remember how stoked I was at Tom Petty's new album "The Last DJ". I broke my RIAA boycott because of it, and ordered the CD direct from Tom's official website through his ...

BMG became the first of the five major music companies to license SunnComm’s MediaMax CD copy-protection technology for use on commercial CDs. BMG declined to say when MediaMax CDs would be available ...

In a first for the United States, a major record company plans Tuesday to release a CD that’s been encrypted to stop digital copying. Universal Music Group’s CD--”More Fast and Furious,” a movie ...

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 ...