Tuesday, June 28, 2005

SONY BMG HINDERS MUSIC PIRATES WITH PROTECTED CD
By Adam Pasick, USA TODAY


Sony BMG, the world's 2nd-largest music company, is rolling out CDs with new technology that serves as a "speed bump" to hinder people who want to make illicit copies.

Users will be able to make three additional CD copies for their own use and to store the music files on their computer in a protected format from Microsoft.

Sony BMG's new copy-protection effort comes with what iPod users will see as a downside: PC users are unable to transfer the songs to Apple's popular iPod portable music player, because Apple has declined to make its software compatible with Microsoft's Windows Media digital rights management (DRM) system.

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