Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Oh - this is great: low-tech protection of copyright...
New York Times reports that writers receiving review copies of two soon-to-be-released Epic albums — Tori Amos's "Scarlet's Walk" and Pearl Jam's "Riot Act" — are finding the CD's already inside Sony Walkman players that have been glued shut. Headphones are also glued into the players, to prevent connecting the Walkman to a recording device. By locking up the discs, Epic hopes to keep writers from converting the music to MP3's that can then be traded over the Net.
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