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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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, <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 ...

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 ...

Damian Kulash Jr., lead singer for the band OK Go, argues convincingly that in this day and age, file-sharing is essential for his band’s success. In the New York Times, He writes: “To be clear, I ...

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 ...