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Fighting Music Piracy with Glue

Posted by chrisd on from the morons-morons-morons dept.

Scott Granneman writes: "The New York Times (Free Blah-di-blah) is reporting that Epic Records, in an effort to prevent reviewers from creating mp3s or even playing the preview CD in anything they don't control, is not disseminating the new Pearl Jam and Tori Amos CDs inside Sony Walkman players that are glued shut. Oh yeah ... the headphones are glued to the players too, to prevent any authorized output. A low-tech answer to a high-tech issue."

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  1. Wire cutters and some speaker wire... by Froobly · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They went to all this trouble to remove the analog loophole, going so far as to permanently attach the headphones...

    But what's to prevent somebody from just cutting off the headphones and splicing another cable onto the end? It's trivial work for anyone with even the slightest bit of electrical ability.

  2. Re:From the article by gabec · · Score: 1, Redundant
    "...is not disseminating the new Pearl Jam and Tori Amos CDs inside Sony Walkman players that are glued shut"

    Shouldn't that say:

    "...is disseminating the new Pearl Jam and Tori Amos CDs inside Sony Walkman players that are glued shut"

    ;)