Ars Technica

Smashing Pumpkins Earphoria...is it a copy protected CD

So teh woman picked up this CD(if it can be called that) last night. I happened to be in a MP3 encoding session at the time, so I grabbed it and chucked it in my ibook. I am encoding with itunes 3(I ...
Network World

Sony pulls copy-protected CDs from shelves

After two weeks of relentless criticism over its XCP copy protection software, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is pulling CDs that contain the software from store shelves. The company is also planning to ...
Ars Technica

Sony adds PC support to copy-protected CDs

Perhaps in an effort to try to calm down people who have been unable to listen copy-protected CDs on their PCs, Sony's Label Gate CDs will allow customers to decode music from the CD onto their PC.
ZDNet

Consumers attack CD copy protection

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, ...
Security

Image Source Rolls out HexaLock Copy Protected CD-RX Media

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 ...
CNET

French investigators probe copy-protected CDs

French authorities have launched an investigation of EMI France and music retailer Fnac over anticopying technology included on CDs that allegedly renders them unplayable on some systems. A magistrate ...