[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 these ...

Other than the typical issues that come with copying so-called ‘booter’ floppies that do not use DOS but boot directly into the game, the protection track with Interlock is rather easy to spot, as ...

Boycotting such CDs is not a bad idea. I would write a letter to the label explaining why you won't be purchasing it as well. Failing that, I think you can black out the copy protection track (on the ...

There is one scheme that can be overcome by applying black permanent magic marker to the outer edge of your CD. Check and see if that's the way this one is protected. I think you can get more details ...

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 ...

a follow-up Following up on yesterday's item on copy-protected audio CDs that not only do not play on a Mac, but may get stuck in the CD drive, articles recently posted to newscientist.com (Copy ...