Slipped quietly alongside regular music CDs in record stores, mostly in Europe, are more than 1 million secretly altered discs -- stealth compact discs that represent the recording industry's hopes for a solution to digital music piracy. The five major record . . .
Slipped quietly alongside regular music CDs in record stores, mostly in Europe, are more than 1 million secretly altered discs -- stealth compact discs that represent the recording industry's hopes for a solution to digital music piracy. The five major record labels aren't disclosing many details on this experiment in copy protection -- including which artists' works have been digitally padlocked -- and various different technologies are used.

The nature of these discs could explain the labels' reticence. They aim to do something no CDs before them could -- provide an impervious barrier against the Internet music free-for-all that Napster and CD burners have made so popular.

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