EMI’s copy-protection technology has resulted in a Melbourne resident doing exactly what the company is trying to prevent – copy a music disc in order to listen to it.
Stephen Marovitch, creative director of the Simon Richards Group which is based in Port Melbourne, picked up the latest Norah Jones album on April 25, and took it to work.
Once there, he tried to listen to his new acquisition, using his Titanium laptop which runs version 10.2 of Apple’s operating system. There was no response, with the disc not being recognised.
One can’t blame Marovitch for not trying – he tried to listen to the disc on a workstation which runs Windows 2000 and then on one which runs Windows XP.
