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Wednesday, April 03, 2002

On to music news. The Hollywood Reporter is claiming that the latest release from Celine Dion will not play on PC's and in fact could cause your computer to crash. Now, I'm no fan of restricting the use of music but I have to officially thank the music industry for adding this protection to Dion's album which will limit album sales, saving an unsuspecting public from themselves.
Here's an article on BBC online that describes how this technology works and how it can be worked around through hardware. I'm sure some 15 year old programmer has already figured out a software fix for this.

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