[ via Boing Boing ] MacFixIt reports that attempting to play the new copy protected CD by the serial cultural criminal Celine Dion will wreck havoc on a Mac with a SuperDrive.
This, of course, raises the question of why any reasonable person would listen to Celine Dion in the first place. And why is the media industry spending all their time and effort copy protecting bad pop music?
One of the folks I worked with at OnRadio is in the music copying arms race, he told the listserve where OnRadio’s former employees lurk that his employers want to put ‘trusted players’ for Windows, Mac and Linux on CDs that would be allowed to play tracks. When I asked him what happens when changes to the OS or hardware make the trusted player obsolete, he didn’t reply. The industry is constructing a situation where, like Mark, the only way we can listen to our old CDs is to find kracked copies.
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