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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Corporations Fight, Consumers Lose

Posted by on October 12 at 9:39 AM

The new issue of Rolling Stone (the one with, yawn, a cover of Paul McCartney—this after last issues’ Rolling Stones blow job) has a good story on releases by certain major labels being incompatible with an iPod and restrictive about the number of copies users can burn. The issue between Sony’s BMG and EMI Music labels and Apple is over Apple “refusing to license its own FairPlay copy-protection, the only system compatible with an iPod,” according to RS. Luckily the mag also reports that Sony BMG will email instructions about how to crack the protection codes upon request.