Digital Copying
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Copy-protected CDs quietly slip into stores
News For the last several months, consumers in ordinary record stores around the world have unwittingly been buying CDs that include technology designed to discourage them from making copies on their PCs.
Napster buyout blocked; fire sale likely
News A judge's decision is likely to force the former file-swapping powerhouse out of business entirely.
Growing buzz over copyright protection
News Consumers are up in arms over reports that record labels are using a new CD copy-protection format that distorts music. Trouble is no one has verified its existence.
EMC acquires Internosis
News Storage giant buys privately held company that provides IT services for corporations that use Microsoft applications.
Tags: Storage, Acquisitions
Sony, Warner license anti-piracy standard
News Two major film studios have agreed to license a technology standard that protects copyrighted movies from being digitally copied en masse for illegal distribution.
Software group: Antipiracy helps economies
News The Business Software Alliance is hoping to convince international governments, trade associations and companies that cracking down on piracy pays.
Sony, Warner license anti-piracy standard
News The two major film studios agree to license a technology standard that protects copyrighted movies from being digitally copied en masse for illegal distribution.
Copy-protected CDs quietly slip into stores
News For the last several months, consumers in ordinary record stores around the world have unwittingly been buying CDs that include technology designed to discourage them from making copies on their PCs.
Copy-protected CDs quietly slip into stores
News For the last several months, consumers in ordinary record stores around the world have unwittingly been buying CDs that include technology designed to discourage them from making copies on their PCs.
Battle lines harden over Net copyright
News Bruce Lehman thinks the digital copyright laws he helped write are in trouble, and it's largely the Net's fault. Lehman helped author the laws that govern music, video and other digital media distribution when he ran the US Patent and Trademark Office in the mid-1990s.
Napster to add copy protection
News While the world waits for final details from the court on Napster's short-term fate, the company and the record industry outline competing versions of the music-swapping service's future.
Jurors misstate payment in MP3.com suit
News Jurors who on Friday ordered online music provider MP3.com to pay nearly US$300,000 to a record label for copyright infringement told the trial judge that they checked the math and discovered they made a mistake: What they really meant was US$3 million.
Copy-protected CD's wounded Pride
News Free copies of songs from country music singer Charley Pride's latest album appeared on the Internet this week, just shortly before a version of the CD incorporating new anti-copying technology was released in U.S. stores Tuesday.
BMG tests copy-protection CDs
News BMG Entertainment said Monday it will work with security technology provider SunnComm to create copy-protected CDs, one of a growing number of efforts by the record labels to combat alleged Internet piracy at the source.
Copy-protected CD's wounded Pride
News Newly released tunes by country music singer Charley Pride end up on the Net before his copy-protected CD hits retail stores.
