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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. 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"

    ;)