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Celine Dion disc is not a CD and crashes PCs

OUT-LAW News, 08/04/2002

The latest album from French-Canadian crooner Celine Dion has been released in Europe with anti-copying protection that is likely to crash any computer upon which it is played. Sony has issued the disc with a warning that it is not a CD and that it will not play on PCs or Macs.

News agency Reuters quotes a Sony Spokeswoman saying that the disc “will possibly cause a system to crash, but it will not alter anything. It also won’t eject properly […] because the computer has crashed.”

Dutch electronics giant Philips recently complained that copy-protected CDs are not really CDs. Accordingly, Sony’s release omits the Compact Disc trade mark which is jointly owned by Philips.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dion’s new album, “A New Day Has Come,” last week sold more than 527,000 copies in the US, putting it at number one in the album chart.

 

 

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