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...favorite tunes from the latest Phil Collins or Duran Duran albums. Record companies dealt with this casual piracy by printing a skull and crossbones on the backs of tapes along with the claim that HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC. If that was the case, then it was the compact disc, which really took off in the mid-'80s, that brought the music industry back to life. Sure, you could hook your cassette recorder up to a CD player, but you couldn't copy that wonderful hiss-and-squeak-free digital fidelity--not yet. So everyone had to buy the Beatles...
...rise in the number of owners of computers with a drive that burns CDs (called a CD-RW drive, short for recordable/writable). A third of all PCs have one; 54% of new computers come with one installed. Half of CD-burner owners, reports Forrester Research, create at least one disc a month. Blank CD-Rs (discs on which you can record only once) bought in bulk cost as little as 25[cents] each. Making your own CDs--from your collection, from friends' discs or from downloaded tunes--is easier, cheaper, faster and more satisfying than any '80s mix tape ever...
...other hand, independent Music City Records released a copy-protected CD by Charley Pride with no sticker to warn users of possible problems. That led to a lawsuit by a Marin County, Calif., woman who discovered the disc wouldn't work on her PC. Music City settled the case without paying damages and agreed to label copy-protected CDs. More significant, Philips--the company that co-owns patents on the CD and licenses that ubiquitous "CD audio" logo--says it is considering yanking the logo from all copy-protected...
...says. But if an industry giant like Philips distances itself from copy protection, the whole enterprise could be counterproductive. A logoless, warning-labeled CD is not going to look as attractive to customers as its unprotected counterparts. Besides, who wants to run even a slight risk that a disc might not work in all machines? "We're hearing that kids have slowed down their purchases of music CDs because they're not sure which ones will crash their machines," says analyst Rob Enderle of the Giga Information Group. "The fear may exist even if the problem doesn...
...help feeling for her. But, ultimately, Unplugged's thrills are only voyeuristic. Hill seems to know this; she's so unsure about whether these songs will be meaningful to a broader audience that she sets up almost every one of them with a lengthy introduction. The second disc begins with 12 minutes of uninterrupted talking. "I want to introduce you to me," she says. "I'm just getting to know me." Later she adds, "The money's not changing me. God is changing me." Unplugged is an emotional experience, but mostly just for Lauryn Hill. --By Josh Tyrangiel