[FYI] Natalie Imbruglia wins CD protection race

[Joerg-Olaf Schaefers <js@fx3.de>]

Wie ich hoerte [1], laueft die CD uebrigens auch nicht auf SA-
CD-Playern von Sony. Schon amuesant, man kauft einen CD-Player
der neuesten Generation, legt dafuer zwischen 1500 und 5000DM
auf den Tisch, und kann noch nicht einmal alle CDs abspielen.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22759.html

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Natalie Imbruglia wins CD protection race
By Kieren McCarthy
Posted: 09/11/2001 at 16:01 GMT

Aussie pop star (and former Neighbours actress) Natalie Imbruglia
has won the race to produce the first copyright-protected CD on
general release to the UK public.

White Lillies Island, which includes current anti-melody hit single
That Day , features Cactus Data Shield protection. This is designed
to prevent MP3-ripping by corrupting the table of contents so it
won't play on a PC, NTK.net reports today.

Bizarrely, Natalie's album contains a Windows app that will allow
the entire album to be played on a WindowsOS PC. It's in an MP3
format, run at 128Kbps. Odd.

Needless to say, it's been ripped and copies are already up on
file-swap sites (in fact they were there before the album was offi-
cially launched). There have been some reports that it is crashing
Windows machines, but it appears to working according to plan by
not working on Linux or MacOS - making Windows the operating system
of choice for pirates.

Michael Jackson's new album Invincible was widely expected to be the
first to impose copyright-protection constraints imposed by the re-
cording industry. ®

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