A new batch of compact discs designed to defeat Napster-style piracy is coming soon to record-industry insiders.
BMG, one of the world’s five major labels, said on Monday it would start issuing promotional CDs — the free discs distributed to critics, retailers and other insiders weeks before the official release — with technological countermeasures to prevent copying.
The major labels, which include Vivendi Universal, Sony Music, EMI Group, AOL Time Warner’s Warner Music and Bertelsmann AG’s BMG, hope that copy protection measures will prevent users from “ripping,” or copying the music into the easily traded MP3 format.
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