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    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.

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    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.

  • 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 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.

  • 'Pimpshiz' speaks - with pride

    The FBI has raided the home of a teenage hacker accused of defacing hundreds of Web sites with a pro-Napster screed.

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  • High alert for open source?

    Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said Thursday.

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    Several organisations argue that SCO's shipment of a Linux product undermines its current attack on the operating system's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless.

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