Greed, Stupidity, and the Music CD.
"A new kind of copy-protected music CD will likely hit U.S. shelves early next year, as record label Sony BMG Music Entertainment experiments with a technology created by British developer First 4 Internet, according to sources familiar with the companies," says this story from news.com. Don't they learn? Apparently they do, but not the right lessons.

While admittedly fearful of the US market's reaction to copy protection on music CDs, some bright college boys in suits looked at the BMG-released Velvet Revolver album reaching the top of the industry's sales charts, despite being clearly marked as copy-protected.

Well, then, we don't care any more. Duh... The Sunncomm copy protection used on the disc could be disabled by holding down the shift key while the CD was loading. Hey, wake up!!

Unfortunately, we're frelled either way. If we protest by not buying the copy protected CDs, we're stuck with music downloads that offer more profit to Big Music than the CDs do. What's a boy to do to get a copy of his own CD, hook up a mini plug patch cable between the player's earphone and his computer's Audio-in jacks? Oh, wait, maybe they'll make earphone jacks illegal.
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