Anti-Swap CD Hits Shelves

Dyre Straits

In his new album, Coming From Where I'm From, Anthony Hamilton reflects on his roots and the directions in which they have led him. His CD, meanwhile, offers a glimpse of the direction the music industry is taking to prevent rampant piracy.

The soulful singer's Arista debut, which arrives in stores today, may look like a traditional CD. But it's the first of an expected wave of CDs intended to keep listeners from swapping songs on the Net.

The disc has two sets of music tracks: one set of "encrypted" songs that can be handled by CD players but cannot be ripped on computers, and a duplicate set of tracks in the Windows Media format. These can be downloaded from the CD to a computer and then transferred to portable devices or recorded to home CDs.

By Mike Snider USA TODAY

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nForcer

I'll give this so-called 'encryption' a week.

MSX

I concur.

krazy1

Where there is a will there is a way......

nForcer

I give it a week because the Linux community is usually 'on' it even before it hits the shelves, but it takes an ubber leet Linux nerd to make that 'hack' workable for the Windows community.

DriveEuro

Agreed.

Judas

if all else fails.... a simple cd player... a dual ended headphone jack..... and the LINE in on the sound card should work perfectly.....

nForcer

Or you can go totally old sk00l and hold a microphone next to the speakers as you play the CD LOL And there is absolutely NO way to stop that.

craig588

This would now be analog ripping's time to shine. I wonder if any rippers still support it?

krazy1

Next thing you know the RIAA will sue us for humming a song with out permission from the artists....... then they will cut our ears off so we can't hear the music and remember it so we can hum it or even think about it.....