A story Threat Level reported almost a month ago has finally hit the mainstream press: an RIAA lawyer affirming in a federal lawsuit that it considers copying music from compact disk to computer to be ...

These days it’s a given: Buying and listening to CDs is passé. Portable music means an iPod or other MP3 player. If most of what you like to listen to now isn't already stored on your computer, it ...

The music industry has been rocked by technology since CNET's start in 1995 and so has how we discover, create, collect and listen to it. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been ...

If you’ve been buying CDs for more than thirty years, there is a good chance that your investment in both music and hardware (and media furniture) has not been a small one. Roon is also not an ...

Up until recently, high-fidelity music streaming was pretty much a premium offering that appealed mainly to audiophiles willing to pay more for the privilege. But with Spotify slated to roll out a ...

The technology built into some CDs to stop people copying them is futile, according to a computer scientist who has put today’s antipiracy systems under the microscope. He believes the continual ...

Yesterday`s high-technology is today`s ho-hum. Three years ago, sealed aluminum platters called ”hard disks” for microcomputers were really high tech. With a 10 megabyte hard disk, the equivalent of 4 ...

I just read your article in this morning's paper. My husband bought me an MP3 player for Christmas and we downloaded LimeWire onto the computer; however, that's where it all ends. He can't figure out ...