Compact discs have long passed their heyday, which came in 2000, when they topped $13 billion in sales in the US. First MP3 players and then streaming services took over. But there are still those of ...

I love music! I have hundreds of CDs in my collection, a few of which have survived since from the late 1980s. I have an original copy of Nirvana’s Nevermind, Foo Fighters debut album, Bush's Sixteen ...

Rules outlawing the transfer of content from CDs or DVDs on to portable players and computers are to be scrapped by the Government. Business secretary Vince Cable has today given the official response ...

A new Windows Media Player update for Windows 11 has brought back CD ripping, meaning that any audio CDs you have can be transferred to your PC and added to a playlist. If you've been a PC user in the ...

The law is, as they say, an ass. And never more so, it seems, than when it comes to copyright. Originally envisaged as a way to protect normal folk, they have become this stick to beat honest people ...

I can put up with the guilt no longer. I confess; I rip CDs. I put them in the CD drive, and use freely available, totally legal software to convert the tracks to MP3 format. Then even worse I ...