The record industry is experimenting with a new strategy for protecting CDs from
and they are on the verge of success with some new copy-protected releases.
this plan will place two versions of an album on a single disc: one in standard CD
form, modified so that it can't be transferred to a computer hard drive, and another
quietly released in U.S. retail stores over the past few months, with hundreds
to a PC, but with some restrictions on how they can be used.
Record labels have long sought technology to curb the practice of ripping,
being copied in CD burners or on computers. Unlike previous anti-copying measures,
Tens of thousands of CDs loaded with anti-copying protections have been
in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio digital format, rigged so that files can be copied
of thousands more landing on shelves overseas.