arnesr and cloakdoa used our newssubmit to tell us:
After selling more than 70 million records, Pride '” one of the last great figures from the pre-Garth, twang-box radio glory days of country music '” is set to release America's first copy-protected compact disk. A tribute to singer Jim Reeves, who died in a plane crash in 1964, Pride's CD will incorporate technology that, in theory, will stop listeners from ripping its tracks into MP3s. If it works '” a hotly disputed question '” copy protection will change the terms of the battle over online music.
Music City plans to employ patent-pending CD-protection software from SunComm, a Phoenix start-up. The software passed initial tests in late March and Heatherly believes that a copy-proof 'Charley Pride: A Tribute to Jim Reeves" should appear on store shelves by early May. |
Pride almost certainly won't be the last musician to use the technology. For years the digerati have mocked the labels for putting out what are, in effect, perfect rip-ready copies of digital master recordings. 'The CD is the root of all of our problems with the Net," says Jay Samit, senior vice president of new media at EMI, which is testing various copy-protection technologies. 'If CDs were as hard to copy as DVDs or VHS tapes or even books, we would not be going through anything like what we're going through now with Napster or Gnutella.
Click on the source link to read more of this article, with also some more information about the protection itself.
First I wonder who buys the records of this guy 😉 and second, if someone buys it/has bought it, please report about it's protection on this site, and let's see how we can get around it
Source: MSNBC.com
