Posted by Larry W. Virden on 09/14/05 15:30

One of the kids was telling me that some of the latest CDs being
released are in a format that prevents one from ripping them into MP3s.
In fact, apparently you can't even listen to the CDs on one's desktop
without a speciality player, which then prevents you from ejecting the
CD (apparently so that you can't insert a blank one...).

Is this something that's been going on for a while and I just never
noticed it being discussed, or is this yet another attempt to copy
protect CDs?

And wasn't there some sort of threat by the people who own the
trademark on CD-ROM or some such thing that was threatened to be
withdrawn if a vendor tried one of these nonsense copy protections?

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