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NewOlde.com - How to Detect and Avoid Copy-Controlled CDs
Information for classical music listeners to help them identify Copy-Controlled CDs, including the graphics that appear on the packaging.
www.newolde.com/

K-tel Custom Music CDs
Create your own CD from a library of tracks.
www.ktel.com/

Adventureland: CDS
Short company information and a detailed list of the adventures they have published.
www.if-legends.org/

Custom Shaped CDs from BDMA
CD business cards, CDs and CDRs in unusual shapes.
www.bdma.net/

Wired: Copy-Protected CDs Taken Back
"[BMG Germany] was faced with a backlash from consumers complaining that some of the copy-protected CDs were unplayable."
www.wired.com/

CNet: Protected CDs Quietly Slip into Stores
"Consumers in ordinary record stores are unwittingly buying CDs that include technology designed to discourage the making of digital copies."
news.cnet.com/

Slashdot: BMG's New Copy-Protected Audio CDs
"BMG-Entertainment started selling audio-CDs using the Cactus Data Shield, a copy-protection system developed by Midbar and Sonopress which makes it impossible to grab the music from the CD and to listen to it using 'an old CD-Player' or a CD-ROM-drive." News and reader comments.
slashdot.org/

More Copy Protected CDs?
Fat Chuck's maintains a list of corrupt CDs. Reader comments and discussion. [Slashdot]
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Register: 1M Anti-piracy Hi-fi Nuking CDs Hit Europe
"One million CDs have been released in Europe which are protected by the controversial anti-piracy system Cactus Data Shield... The Cactus Data Shield system is controversial because the technology could blow your hi-fi speakers." By Robert Blincoe.
www.theregister.co.uk/

Lawsuit Challenges Copy-protected CDs
Reader discussion of Reuters article. [Slashdot]
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