There's no digital rights management (DRM) on music you rip from an audio CD, so you can freely copy it to your other devices ...

In a statement on its Web site, Sony said customers who've already purchased the discs can exchange them, and remaining inventory will be pulled. "We share the concerns of consumers regarding ...

The device claims it reduced vibration, improved audio, and even helped ... it also seems crazy that a marker on a CD would defeat some forms of copy protection, but it did. Apparently, quite ...

The prevention of unauthorized copying of software or media. From the 1950s to the 1980s, software copy protection was not an issue. Vendor support for mainframes and minicomputers had always been ...

[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 ...

Microsoft has announced that old DRM services will be deactivated. This affects older media players and operating systems.

Floppy disks have been widely used as magnetic disks for personal computers since around 1980, and were used as recording media until optical disk drives such as CDs and DVDs became the standard ...

DVD movies and audio CDs, for instance (though obviously something beyond ImgBurn is required for breaking DVD encryption/copy protection). Notes: This has only been tested on Windows 10 AU, as of ...

CDs have been a part of all our lives for years, while only being released in 1982, and can still be found today. But do ...

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player.

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