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  • Compromise for CD copying is in the works

    Anti-piracy features making their way onto CDs promise to dramatically alter the online music landscape, potentially handing Microsoft a potent weapon against the leading MP3 format and other rivals in the high-stakes battle over digital-audio standards.

  • Copy-protected CD's wounded Pride

    Free copies of songs from country music singer Charley Pride's latest album appeared on the Internet this week, just shortly before a version of the CD incorporating new anti-copying technology was released in US stores.

  • Copy-protected CDs quietly slip into stores

    Consumers in ordinary music stores are unwittingly buying CDs that include technology designed to discourage the making of digital copies.

  • BMG to test 'rip'-proof CDs

    BMG Entertainment has said it will work with security technology provider SunnComm to create copy-protected CDs, one of a growing number of efforts by the record labels to combat alleged Internet piracy at the source.

  • Lawsuit targets copy-protected CDs

    A lawsuit has been against an independent record label for embedding technology in CDs that blocks people from listening to songs on a computer.

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