Record Label Adds PS2 Game To Album

Thanks to the San Jose Mercury News/AP for their article discussing Atlantic Records' addition of an abridged, playable PlayStation 2 game to a new music album, due out next month. According to the article: "The first 1 million copies of P.O.D.'s fifth record, "Payable on Death," will come with a version of "Amplitude," a game that allows players to remix a collection of pop songs." Interestingly, "The abridged version of the game will only have a P.O.D. song called 'Space'", a track that wasn't available on the original release of the Sony-published music game, and the president of the record company says: "Atlantic Records has an opportunity with this because this technology is not copyable, it's not downloadable, it's not swappable."

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Re:Not copyable?

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

I think they realize that it is not secure but the fact is the average person does not have a modded PS2 and would have to buy the CD in order to get the game. Sure, the game will end up being available for download but this seems like a step in the right direction for the music industry. Again, to the average user this is a nice deal because you get something extra in addition to the music. I saw a Marilyn Manson cd being sold that included a DVD along with it. This type of value-adding is what the music companies need to do in order to get people back to the store to buy their CDs - if that's the business model they want to hold onto.

By the way, everytime any Slashdot article mentions a spokesman talking about the security of a product, someone posts the "I give them a [time period] before..." It's not really needed.