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 ...

Mark Russinovich couldn’t understand how the rootkit had sneaked onto his system. An expert on the internals of the Windows operating system, he is careful when it comes to computer security and ...

Floppy disks have been widely used as magnetic disks for personal computers since around 1980, and were used as recording media until optical disk drives such as CDs and DVDs became the standard in ...

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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 ...

Sony BMG has entered a preliminary agreement to settle a class action lawsuit brought against the company in New York for its use of copy-protection software that allegedly behaves like spyware. The… ...

Sony BMG, yielding to consumer concern, said on Wednesday (Nov. 16) it was recalling music CDs containing copy-protection software that acts like virus software and hides deep inside a computer. By ...