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 ...

These measures rarely posed much of a challenge to the dedicated efforts of crackers, but the copy protection in the classic 80s game Dungeon Master for the Atari ST and Amiga was next-level.

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 ...

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 ...

You can open a CD at almost any bank, but it literally pays to find CDs with high interest rates. Shop around at credit unions, banks and other financial institutions. Rates will vary and your go ...

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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Even if you took out the CD late in the year, you will receive a Form 1099-INT if the interest you earned was over $10. The bank or financial institution also sends a copy of this form to the IRS ...