NEW YORK – Burning and downloading songs may soon be an activity of the past, as copy-protected CDs begin to hit the market. Last month, More Fast and Furious: Songs From and Inspired by the Motion ...

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.

Two leading copy-protection technology companies announced Tuesday that they are merging, in a deal that could help speed the move of controversial copy-proof music CDs to market. Macrovision, a Santa ...

If music is among your gift-giving ideas this holiday, beware of the danger still lurking on some store shelves. Compact discs containing software that some have called spyware still can be found at ...

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.

The five major record companies have been hit with a class-action lawsuit charging that new CDs designed to thwart Napster-style piracy are defective and should either be barred from sale or carry ...

Perhaps in an effort to try to calm down people who have been unable to listen copy-protected CDs on their PCs, Sony's Label Gate CDs will allow customers to decode music from the CD onto their PC.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Some music fans are trying to fake out CD copy protection technology with the stroke of a felt-tip pen. The tactic is being used in Europe, where Sony is trying out a copy ...

The technology built into some CDs to stop people copying them is futile, according to a computer scientist who has put today’s antipiracy systems under the microscope. He believes the continual ...