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Copy-Protected CDs Going Mainstream

Posted by timothy on from the are-you-proposing-to-slaughter-our-clients dept.

bmarklein writes "According to this CNET article, Arista is going to start shipping copy-protected CDs in volume. Looks like the discs will include DRM'd Windows Media files in the second session. No mention of which titles will be affected, but Arista is the home of Santana, Whitney Houston, Pink, TLC and Kenny G."

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  1. Re:Kenny G ... by Peterus7 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, it'd be risky if they started copy protecting any music that is popular amoung the geek population... Say, linkin park (I'm making an extrapolation. If you hate it, sorry.) or something? Don't you think it would be dangerous...

  2. Japan by greggman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here in Japan, Massive Attack's latest release was DRMed. I don't know if it was in the states.

    The funny thing is, in Japan, your can rent music. In fact Tsutaya, the Blockbuster video of Japan, rents music (CD) at all their stores and even crazier, they sell black CDs and MDs at the counter! :-p

  3. Do they really think this will work? by dracol1ch · · Score: 5, Interesting
    My question to the Slashdotters is this:

    Is the music industry really so dumb as to think that hardware and software solutions will really ever work?

    Think of it this way, software companies have been trying for years to copy protect their software. They've gone rapidly through overburned CDs, hardware dongles, encrypted CD verification. Sony even masked Playstation discs so that they could leave sections of the CDs blank as a sort of key. None of it has worked yet. What makes record labels think that they're immune?

    Of course, don't get me wrong. The more time they spend on pointless hardware and software solutions the more time they divert from their likely more effective political attempts.

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