A story Threat Level reported almost a month ago has finally hit the mainstream press: an RIAA lawyer affirming in a federal lawsuit that it considers copying music from compact disk to computer to be ...

CDs aren’t exactly cutting-edge in 2025. Since the peak years around the turn of the millennium, sales have plummeted because streaming services like Spotify have taken over. But there are still times ...

From a reader: I would like to know how I can rip my old CDs and not lose them when I get a new computer. I have ripped them once before using iTunes but didn’t realize they were stored on my PC and ...

The Internet has been much ado and ado over whether the Recording Industry Association of America, which has been filing lawsuits against Americans for file sharing for years, also believes that ...

Carrying around dozens of CDs can be a cumbersome task, so it makes a lot of sense to record the music from those discs for playback on an easier-to-carry iPod. Apple's iTunes software makes this ...

I received a follow-up question to my column about copying songs from CDs to your computer’s hard drive. "I’m writing in regard to your recent column about ripping CDs. I have done that with my CDs ...

Music label BMG has licensed from SunnComm Technologies new technology designed to prevent music buyers from making unlimited digital copies of songs from its CDs. The Bertelesmann AG division, which ...

Windows only: Pod to PC can grab the music and movies off nearly any Windows-formatted iPod for transferring to your PC, and avoids duplicates while doing so. Install and fire up the software, and if ...