THanks for the news, walktalker!
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Originally posted by walktalker
CD players glued shut to stop piracy 
A US record company has issued reviewers with portable CD players that are glued shut to prevent two new albums from being pirated online before their official releases. Epic Records Group has taken the drastic step of sealing CD players shut and gluing headphones onto them to stop digital copies being made from promotional albums. The albums involved are Riot Act by Pearl Jam and Scarlet's Walk by Tori Amos. A spokeswoman for Epic told New Scientist: "Obviously we have a problem with piracy and this is one of the ways we're trying to address it. We're trying lots of things." New albums have appeared early on file sharing networks such as KaZaA, Morpheus and Grokster with a frequency which is alarming record companies. Eminem's The Eminem Show suffered this fate prior to release in May 2002.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992804
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Who cares? Sooner or later someone's goning to buy the album and put it a p2p program. I don't see no point in the glueing it. They are just showing they don't trust the critics (or whoever they gave the album to).