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.

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 ...

When I first heard about the iLoad, I was a bit skeptical. Admittedly there must be some people in the world who have iPods but not PCs or Macs. For the rest of us it’s hardly necessary to pay $299 ...

Mac users may want to check the labels on their music CDs twice, as copy-protected audio discs flooding the market may lead to serious problems when they are played on some computer systems. Since ...

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.

Record company BMG said Friday that it planned to release its first copy-protected compact disc in the United States this month in an attempt to deter music pirates from churning out multiple copies ...

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 ...