Years from now, you’ll try to plug your phone into a speaker or set of headphones via the iPhone’s Lightning port, and the music won’t play. Maybe it’s because the headphones weren’t authorized by ...

I just read on a German website how to beat the copy protection scheme on the new audio discs that won't read in a computer, such as Celine Dion's new disc. Apparently, there's an outer ring of ...

Universal Music Group has employed a controversial copy protection scheme on a new audio CD this week. Designed to prevent the music on the CD from being pirated, it also excludes the disc from being ...

SunnComm's MediaMaxx copy protection scheme can now be easily defeated, thanks to SunnComm themselves. The copy protection scheme, which is used widely in audio CDs produced by Sony BMG, was developed ...

"All it takes is the shift key," Alex Halderman GS said, describing his discovery of a way to bypass the copy-prevention technique on SunnComm Technologies' new copy-protection for audio CDs on PCs.

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

KB doc modified and reposted; more reader tipsKB document returns The now famous KB document 106882 (on copy-protected CDs that get stuck in drives) has returned from its brief vacation (see prior ...

An influential U.S. lawmaker stepped up his criticism Wednesday of record labels' moves to protect CDs against copying. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., approached the record industry's trade association in ...

The prevention of unauthorized copying of software and media. With regard to software, from the 1950s to the 1980s, copy protection was not a major issue. It became a problem after the advent of the ...

a follow-upFollowing up on yesterday's item on copy-protected audio CDs that not only do not play on a Mac, but may get stuck in the CD drive, articles recently posted to newscientist.com (Copy ...