Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia is the first big name that released a copy protected CD. The CD is protected by Cactus Datashield that should prevent consumers from ripping and copying the CD.
Funny detail however, the CD already contains MP3 files encoded at 128 kbps, that should be played with an included player, but well
White Lillies Island, which includes current anti-melody hit single That Day, features Cactus Data Shield protection. This is designed to prevent MP3-ripping by corrupting the table of contents so it won't play on a PC, NTK.net reports today. |
Bizarrely, Natalie's album contains a Windows app that will allow the entire album to be played on a WindowsOS PC. It's in an MP3 format, run at 128Kbps. Odd.
Needless to say, it's been ripped and copies are already up on file-swap sites (in fact they were there before the album was officially launched). There have been some reports that it is crashing Windows machines, but it appears to working according to plan by not working on Linux or MacOS - making Windows the operating system of choice for pirates.
Source: TheRegister
