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 ...

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 ...

New York – BMG will join Universal in offering commercial copy-protected CDs in the U.S. On Sept. 23, BMG’s Arista Records label will offer Anthony Hamilton’s Comin’ From Where I’m From disc, which ...

As teenagers slip through Napster's increasingly dense filters for the latest pop craze, veteran country music singer Charley Pride is trying to sell a new method of thwarting file traders: ...

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.

In a first for the United States, a major record company plans Tuesday to release a CD that’s been encrypted to stop digital copying. Universal Music Group’s CD--”More Fast and Furious,” a movie ...

Makers of a Charley Pride CD, the first known copy-protected compact disc released in the United States, have agreed to warn consumers it is not compatible with computer CD-ROM drives or DVD players.

Music company Sony BMG, yielding to consumer concern, said on Wednesday it was recalling music CDs containing copy-protection software that acts like virus software and hides deep inside a computer.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced that it has been testing a digital rights management (DRM) system called “sterile burning” and has already released 10 CD titles — about 1 million discs — with ...

An anticopying technology used by Sony Music Entertainment Inc. on music CDs sold in Europe is apparently being defeated by music lovers using simple straight lines drawn on protected CDs with ...