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.

For the last several months, consumers in ordinary record stores around the world have unwittingly been buying CDs that include technology designed to discourage them from making copies on their PCs.

Q: Possibly you could shed some light on this issue. I was reading about Sony CDs containing software that is automatically installed on your computer that disables the ability to copy music CDs. How ...