Sony BMG Music Entertainment and a technology partner are working with antivirus companies on a fix for a potential security problem in some copy-protected CDs. Earlier in the week, security experts ...

A new kind of copy-protected music CD will likely hit U.S. shelves early next year, as record label Sony BMG Music Entertainment experiments with a technology created by British developer First 4 ...

Write-protected CDs are designed to have files copied to them only once. Blank write-protected CDs are identified as CD-R discs. Using the default options in Windows, once you copy files to a CD-R and ...

The EMI Group record label said music from its copy-protected CDs will soon play on Apple Computer's iPod digital music players, but the iPod maker disagrees. For more than a year, the anti-copying ...

A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling the new anticopying measures being tested on CDs by BMG--and they're as simple as holding down a computer's Shift key. In a ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hoping to crack down on music piracy, five major record labels have quietly begun selling CDs containing technology that foils attempts by customers to copy the songs onto blank discs ...

BMG announced Monday it would start issuing its promotional CDs with a copy-protection scheme designed to prevent unauthorized copying of the music and stem the tide of file-sharing. The CDs from BMG ...

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 ...