When you're unable to move or copy a file because it's write-protected, your problem may stem from a number of causes. If the file is in use by Windows or an application, the file remains locked until ...

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After two weeks of relentless criticism over its XCP copy protection software, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is pulling CDs that contain the software from store shelves. The company is also planning to ...

KB doc modified and reposted; more reader tips KB document returns The now famous KB document 106882 (on copy-protected CDs that get stuck in drives) has returned from its brief vacation (see prior ...

Perhaps in an effort to try to calm down people who have been unable to listen copy-protected CDs on their PCs, Sony's Label Gate CDs will allow customers to decode music from the CD onto their PC.

The EMI Group record label said music from its copy-protected CDs will soon play on Apple Computer's iPod digital music players, but the iPod maker disagrees. For more than a year, the anti-copying ...

In a ruling made public today, the Paris Court of Appeal has decided (English translation here) that the Content Scrambling System used to copy protect the contents of DVDs is trumped by the fair use ...