Sony drops copy-control CDs
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Sony Music Entertainment Japan has decided to drop the copy-protection on its CDs from November 17 onwards. Copy protection was introduced by the company in January last year.
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The record company's response to dwindling CD sales is cutting up to 2,000 jobs worldwide in an attempt to save $400 million
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Sony BMG is the last major record company to do away with the programs, which prevent illegal copying and distribution of songs on the Internet.
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Japan's Toshiba Corp  said on  Tuesday it would stop promoting its HD DVD format for the  next-generation DVD after losing the support of key studios and  retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp  .
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A year after the stillborn iTunes competitor was launched, Sony to finally bury music service sometime after March 2008.
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the world's second largest music company, will this month become the last of the big four majors to drop copy protection software on music downloads, also known as digital rights management (DRM).
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Sony Corp said on Thursday it would stop  shipments of PlayStation 3 models with 20- and 60-gigabyte (GB)  hard disk drives in Japan this month, focusing instead on the  40-GB model.
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Firms left unsatisfied with disks under two inches Hitachi plans to drop production of miniature hard disk drives used in digital music players and video cameras, according to the Japanese business newspaper Nikkei.â¦
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Sony's three-year effort to beat Apple Inc.'s iTunes Music Store is over. The company will shutter its Connect music store and adopt Windows Media DRM.
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Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said on  Tuesday it would stop promoting its HD DVD format for the  next-generation DVD after losing the support of key studios and  retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp  (6758.T).
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Sony Corp.&#39;s music unit is abandoning its CDs that use built-in technology that limits copying them, after pushing the program for two years.
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Sony's decision to drop its ATRAC file format and shutter the Connect music store signals a radical departure for the electronics giant, which has tried for 15 years to market its proprietary file format as a viable competitor to MP3 and other digital music formats.
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Sony discontinues CDs that limit copying. Also: SBC unveils plan for three-in-one machine & hellip;. Entertainment companies invest in DVD formats & hellip;. and more.
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The encryption on high definition DVDs has been bypassed, the group backing  copy protection confirms.
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So-called FairUse program breaks copy protection on Windows Media Player.
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Active Archive Appliance Enterprise Edition drops DVD technology for Blu-ray support.
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You know it's bound to happen: One of the CDs you've burned is going to stop working - be it from scratches, aging, poor manufacturing or the fact that it was made with old software.    But don't turn that disc into a drink coaster quite yet...