Sony Abandons Copy-Control Music CDs
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Sony Corp.'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 BMG Music Entertainment, the last major music label holding out against selling music online without copy protection, relented Thursday and announced Amazon.com Inc.'s digital music store will carry songs by its artists.
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With Sony's move to sell music unburdened by digital rights management schemes, all of the Big Four labels have now thrown DRM on the dump heap of history. But Sony and Universal are experimenting with digital watermarking -- an anti-piracy tool that has implications of its own.
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Sony&#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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By Jefferson Graham  LOS ANGELES -- The music industry is looking ahead to life without copy protection.
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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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Replacing physical CDs with digital music downloads doesn't necessarily help the environment.
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Papering over the cracks Microsoft is working on closing a loophole that creates a means to strip usage restriction from music files wrapped in its DRM technology. A program called FairUse4WM, recently posted on the internet, allows users to bypass Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) system.â¦
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Real said Monday that its Rhapsody service would switch over to its own in-house DRM software, ending a partnership with Microsoft for its PlaysForSure Windows Media technology. The SanDisk Sansa e200 line will be the first with the DRM embedded.
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It's the end of an era Amazon.com has now secured the right to sell DRM-free music from all four major labels, snagging Sony BMG.â¦
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IN A major strategic reversal, Sony plans to add support for MP3 music files to some of its portable music players. The shift to support the widely used MP3 music format would end Sony&#39;s long-standing insistence on its proprietary Atrac format.
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Sony has released the first of its digital audio players to support the popular MP3 format, marking a significant shift in its music strategy.
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Sony's first digital audio players to support MP3 files have been released in Europe in a significant change in strategy.
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Sony stops making copy-protected CDs, saying music fans have heeded its anti-piracy message.
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The Warner Music Groupâs announcement is the recording industryâs latest move away from its reliance on digital locks to reduce piracy.
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The legal downloading of songs has increased tenfold, and the money is rolling in at last. Also:  Toshiba software will let you edit documents from a phone & hellip;.  Sony head admits to mistake, calls for innovation & hellip;. and more.
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Tacit admission of defeat IFA 07 Sony will next year kill off its Connect digital music download service, Register Hardware has learned. Its Walkman products will instead Windows Media technology, the consumer electronics giant told its customers today.â¦