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Thursday, November 17, 2005

Sony recalls copy-protected music CDs

Music company Sony BMG, yielding to consumer concern, said on Wednesday it was recalling music CDs containing copy-protection software that acts like virus software and hides deep inside a computer.

Sony initially refused to identify the complete list, but now says that it will post the list on its Web site soon. Meanwhile, you can tell if your CD has the rootkit protection by looking at the back. If you see a black and white table called "Compatible With," it's copy-protected; if the Web address at the bottom of table ends with XCP, it's protected using the rootkit method.

Sony BMG CDs with XCP (damned rootkit that will fuck up computers running on Windows) software:

Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)
Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)
Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)
Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)
Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)
Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)
Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)
The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)
Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)
Amerie, Touch (Columbia)
Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)
Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy)
Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)
Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)
The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)
The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)
Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)
Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)
Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia)

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Pitchfork Phish bashing

Pitchfork is really into Phish bashing lately. The band is featured in their Worst Record Covers of All Time and Top 50 Worst Guitar Solo of the Millenium.

About the cover of the Biilly Breathes album:

Perhaps the only album to credit a "nose hair groomer." Editorial has contractually obligated me to include this cover in an effort to even out this album's inclusion on Pitchfork's Beta-Version Best of the 1990s list.

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And they don't like the guitar solo of Demand:

I wonder if Phish-heads realize how consummately terrible this Birkenstock- rocker really is. I mean, at least Jerry Garcia's endless guitar solos were somewhat competent, but Anastasio is a complete joke. I'm not even sure getting stoned out of my mind would help me appreciate this stuff. This guy makes such a mess of the blues that you'd have to be a real mental defective not to realize just how clueless he is. But he sports a "jazzier" and more "experimental" side, too. "Experimental," in Anastasio's case, simply means long, shakily improvised passages that go nowhere and amount to nothing. So with that, go try and follow the winding, muddy trail of notes on "Demand." Good luck, and don't bogart that joint, hippie scum.

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