The Universal Music Group, the largest and arguably most rapacious recording company, has vowed to copy-protect all of its CDs by the first quarter of 2002. So if you want to listen to your new PJ Harvey or Eminem album on a computer, you'll have to lease it from PressPlay, and you'll have to run a proprietary Windows-based secure player.

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