Many have sought the holy grail of making commercial media both readable and copy-proof, especially once everyone began to copy those floppies. One of these attempts to make floppies copy-proof was ...

Even though Sega’s Saturn console is more than two decades old, it still features a top-notch copy protection system that proved to be incredibly difficult to crack. Thanks to a series of mod chips, ...

Sony is at it again. Several DVDs using their ARccOS copy protection system are refusing to play in DVD players. The system is designed to stop copying by corrupting ...

You could hardly have asked for a clearer demonstration of the futility of copy protection than the events of the past three weeks. The DVD-encryption key that sparked a user rebellion on Digg in ...

After high-profile headlines in recent months that the copy protection on Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs had been cracked, engineers went back to work on revising the AACS copy protection system used on ...

In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is a surprisingly new one, and in an earlier era of consumer software ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: you bring a CD home from the store, pop it into your computer, and it installs a hidden CD/DVD device driver on your PC that tries to prevent you from making ...

WASHINGTON — With DVD use growing rapidly worldwide — and computer hackers becoming more and more brazen in developing programs that circumvent copy protection — plans to bolster disc integrity have ...

The recent controversy over a copy-protection system employed on music CDs from Sony BMG Music Entertainment proved to Sony Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer the need to carefully ...

Sega Saturn fans have a problem: while the console has long supported unofficial code on CDs thanks to mod chips, that's no good if you want to use software in any other format. How will you play ...

4K content has been available on Netflix for quite a while, but this week, pirates finally found a way to bypass the copy protection system for the Ultra HD shows, resulting in the first major leak.