Copy lock. (Circuits).The next music CD you buy won't won't Contraction of will not. won't will not won't will have a big "copy protected" sticker, but it could have a high-tech lock on it just the same. With little publicity, the recording industry has begun selling CDs designed to make it impossible for people to copy music to their computers, trade songs over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , or transfer them to portable MP3 players A digital music player that supports the MP3 format, which was the audio format that started a revolution in online music downloads and distribution. All portable music players, the iPod being the most popular, support MP3 along with one or more other audio formats. . One version of the technology inserts distortions into the music that can't be detected on an ordinary CD player. But those distortions make clicking and popping sounds when the files are transferred to a computer. The record companies hope to stop piracy piracy, robbery committed or attempted on the high seas. It is distinguished from privateering in that the pirate holds no commission from and receives the protection of no nation but usually attacks vessels of all nations. via computers and the Internet, which they blame for a 10 percent drop in U.S. music sales last year. One Web site, www.fatchucks.com, keeps a list of "corrupt CDs" that consumers know or suspect are copy protected. |
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