Midbar said the CDs are protected by its technology, dubbed Cactus Data Shield, which prevents potential copyright pirates from illegally reproducing the content. The company said its CDs can play on ...

For more than a year, the anti-copying technology loaded on some major label compact discs has been compatible only with Windows-based computers. Those CDs have allowed listeners to move digital files ...

I was standing in my local recordshop, and I was thinking of purchasing the new foo fighters album... I checked the back and it said that it was only designed to play in Audio players and may ...

The music industry is now testing different copy protection systems on mass market chart CDs, with copies of NSync’s Celebrity on the Zomba label being sold in at least three different versions. Those ...

Does anybody have any experience with installing software on Virtual PC that has the CD-cops protection scheme? After I install and try to launch the program for the first time, the CD starts spinning ...

Mark Russinovich was doing a routine test this week of computer security software he'd co-written, when he made a surprising discovery: Something new was hiding itself deep inside his PC's guts. It ...

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 ...

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