Electronics and music giant Sony is rolling out a new CD copy-protection technology that will let the company sell music on multiformat CDs with additional content that can be accessed through PCs. The company said that in response to the digital piracy caused by copying or “ripping” CDs into digital form for Internet redistribution, it is introducing the new copy-protection approach with a release in Germany that will be followed by wider use of the technology elsewhere around the world.
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Sony Attempts New Copy-Protection Strategy
Posted by: Jay Lyman November 11, 2003 12:23 PMElectronics and music giant Sony is rolling out a new CD copy-protection technology that will let the company sell music on multiformat CDs with additional content that can be accessed through PCs. The company said that in response to the digital piracy caused by copying or “ripping” CDs into digital form for Internet redistribution, it is introducing the new copy-protection approach with a release in Germany that will be followed by wider use of the technology elsewhere around the world.