Other than the typical issues that come with copying so-called ‘booter’ floppies that do not use DOS but boot directly into the game, the protection track with Interlock is rather easy to spot, as ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. update A bug in the latest version of TiVo's operating system has some users concerned that the service's content protection ...

[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of these ...

The Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) dubbed a Senate proposal to mandate copy-protection technology as flawed and vague, but the music and movie industries showered it with praise. The Consumer ...

Peter Jacobs faces a daunting challenge: convincing millions of music fans that he's not a policeman. The 53-year-old former on-air radio personality heads Phoenix-based SunnComm, one of dozens of ...

"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.

Microsoft and copy-protection company Macrovision have struck a deal that will add a new layer of anticopying defenses to video content being swapped between home devices. The two companies said that ...

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

The BBC has reasserted its stance that a certain amount of copy protection should be implemented for high value content on Freeview HD. Speaking at a Freeview HD launch event today, BBC chief ...

Thou shalt not offend law-abiding computer gamers with frivolous strictures, I think that’s a commandment somewhere. Whether CD/DVD copy protection tool SecuROM counts as frivolous, feckless, or ...

Mark Russinovich couldn’t understand how the rootkit had sneaked onto his system. An expert on the internals of the Windows operating system, he is careful when it comes to computer security and ...

A French court has ruled against copy protection software on DVDs that prevented the plaintiff from copying a DVD of Mulholland Drive into a video tape for "personal use" (which is mildly amusing, as ...