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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Tuesday it is now selling digital music downloads on its Web site without the customary copy-protection technology that limits where consumers can play ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc has reached a deal with major record labels to sell digital songs without the copy protection software that had prevented fans from sharing music bought from its iTunes ...

SEATTLE — Amazon.com plans to open an online music store offering only songs that are free of copy-protection technology and can be played on anything from PCs to portable gadgets such as Apple’s iPod ...

Signaling another departure from the music industry's longtime antipiracy strategy, the Universal Music Group will sell a significant portion of its catalog without the customary copy protection ...

Sony BMG Music Entertainment has offered free music downloads to as many 11 million customers to settle lawsuits over flawed copy-protection software on compact discs, lawyers said Thursday. The ...

This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington. EMI, the world's third largest record company, announced a bold move this week. Starting next month, iTunes customers will be able to buy EMI ...

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 ...

Over 300,000 new types of ransomware and other malicious software are discovered daily, according to the IT security research institute AV-TEST. Computer viruses can slow your devices, create a slew ...

The first, now rewritten, referred to DRM as "digital restrictions management" and prevented GPL-licensed software from being used in DRM copy-protection software The Free Software Foundation (FSF) ...

You get what you pay for. That’s what they always say, right? And while that can be true for many things, antivirus software is a little different. There are reputable free antivirus solutions out ...