Ok, here's the scoop: Around january my car was broken into and all my cd's and cd player were ganked. After being screwed by my insurance company and getting dick I decided to copy my friends cd's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Record companies' efforts to protect CDs against digital copying are beginning to draw scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that the plans might violate the law. On Friday, Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., sent ...

If you use audio CDs in your small business, a cracked CD doesn't necessarily mean that you've lost its contents forever: using a little ingenuity, you can repair the crack long enough for you to copy ...

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 ...

The latest improvement to Sony’s CD “copy protection” technology can still be defeated with sticky tape or marker pens, New Scientist has found. But Sony warns the methods could damage the discs and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Some music fans are trying to fake out CD copy protection technology with the stroke of a felt-tip pen. The tactic is being used in Europe, where Sony is trying out a copy ...

The problem is documented in a recent Apple Knowledge Base entry entitled Mac OS: Cannot Eject Copy Protected Audio Disc, Computer Starts Up to Gray Screen. These discs aren’t strictly CDs, according ...

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