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  • New CD copy-lock technology nears market

    A new kind of copy-protected music CD will likely hit U.S. shelves early next year, as record label SonyBMG experiments with a technology created by British developer First 4 Internet, according to sources familiar with the companies.

  • iPod undermines Microsoft on copy-locked CDs

    When a copy-protected CD hit No. 1 on the U.S. music sales charts last month, it marked a breakthrough for the antipiracy technology in all but one sense: The music still wouldn't play on Apple's iPod.

  • Shift key breaks CD copy locks

    A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling the new anticopying measures being tested on CDs by BMG--and they're as simple as holding down a computer's Shift key.

  • Copy lock shuts out music pirates

    The music wars rage on as a Bertelsmann CD maker announces that it will deploy anti-copying technology from an Israeli company to thwart illegal reproduction of music CDs.

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