Other than the typical issues that come with copying so-called ‘booter’ floppies that do not use DOS but boot directly into the game, the protection track with Interlock is rather easy to spot, as ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. update A bug in the latest version of TiVo's operating system has some users concerned that the service's content protection ...

Peter Jacobs faces a daunting challenge: convincing millions of music fans that he's not a policeman. The 53-year-old former on-air radio personality heads Phoenix-based SunnComm, one of dozens of ...

Microsoft and copy-protection company Macrovision have struck a deal that will add a new layer of anticopying defenses to video content being swapped between home devices. The two companies said that ...

Thou shalt not offend law-abiding computer gamers with frivolous strictures, I think that’s a commandment somewhere. Whether CD/DVD copy protection tool SecuROM counts as frivolous, feckless, or ...

Copying CDs is bad, <I>mmmmkay</I>? And that's why Microsoft has announced the <I>Windows Media Data Session Toolkit</I>, a technology aimed at embedding copy controls onto audio CDs in such a way as ...

When Muslix64 announced that they had been able to steal 'title keys' from software media players as they started to play an HD DVD disc, the world was intrigued - had high def movie discs been ...

The BBC has reasserted its stance that a certain amount of copy protection should be implemented for high value content on Freeview HD. Speaking at a Freeview HD launch event today, BBC chief ...

Oh, for the old days when sailing the seas of piracy was as simple as hooking a couple of VCRs together with a dubbing cable. Sure, the video quality degraded with each generation, but it was so bad ...

Mark Russinovich couldn’t understand how the rootkit had sneaked onto his system. An expert on the internals of the Windows operating system, he is careful when it comes to computer security and ...

A French court has ruled against copy protection software on DVDs that prevented the plaintiff from copying a DVD of Mulholland Drive into a video tape for "personal use" (which is mildly amusing, as ...

Mix the thundering clash of two huge U.S. industries with the threat of government intervention and the potential for consumer rights violations, and what do you get? The debate over digital copy ...