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The Big Sony BMG Pirate Battle

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Arrrr! Sony BMG is unveiling a new CD technology to provide a speed bump for those nasty pirates. The new CDs only allow for three duplicates to be made and can only be ripped to a computer in a protected format. Legal problems are already arising, though; the protected rip format forbids the music from being put onto the Apple iPod, so BMG is sending emails to inquiring customers with instructions on a backdoor route around this problem. Nice one, Sony!

Sony BMG hinders music pirates with protected CD [Reuters]

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