Neowin News Feed for: Copy-protection

Sony Begins Shipping CDs with Built-In Copy-Protection Tech

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:10:41 +0000

Sony has started shipping compact discs armed with copy-protection technology provided by the UK-based firm First4Internet. The security feature is not designed to thwart sophisticated duplication strategies used by those who will stop at nothing... Read more...

Microsoft offers CD copy-protection

Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:15:37 +0000

Sounds like another grand plan :S "Microsoft Corp. announced on Saturday the introduction of new digital rights software aimed at helping music labels control unauthorized copying of CDs, one of the biggest thorns... Read more...

Two big players in copy-protection become one

Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:18:42 +0000

Two of the biggest names in copy-protection have now been merged. Macrovision has acquired the technologies developed by Midbar Tech and it intends to use these to help mature its own copy-protection system. ... Read more...

IBM updates copy-protection software

Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:09:58 +0000

On Monday IBM released a new version of its antipiracy software designed to prevent people from copying and swapping music, video, images, and text online. It's the company's latest attempt to appease lawmakers who want... Read more...