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On copy-protected CDs...

Posted December 25, 2002 11:11 AM.

So I got my first copy-protected album this morning as a gift for Christmas. Or at least I think it was copy-protected. My first reaction? I'm going to have to take it back. My main places for listening to music? On my iPod, my home computer playing through my stereo (how else can you get massive amounts of tracks played randomly?) or on my iBook. I still buy CDs - in fact I buy loads of them. But as a rule they get ripped to my computer and then stacked neatly on a shelf never to be played again. As far as I'm concerned, CDs are a content-delivery system (like software coming on CD-ROMs), not a media to be played...

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