The Null Device

EMI CD download update: Apparently the CD-burning technology EMI intend to use to allow consumers to download tracks does include copy protection, in the form of "a scrambled digital signal that would prevent it being copied" in between tracks. Could this be that holiest of Recording Racket holy grails, a Macrovision for CDs? I'd be skeptical about anything like that working reliably one way or the other.

(It makes me want to buy/burn one of those CDs, just to see whether I can rip it and/or whether it plays on all kinds of CD players. Mind you, to do so I'd probably have to sell my soul and run Windows and all sorts of closed-source corporate spyware.)

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