A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other types of music discs is helping to stall the release of some new music technology, and could result in record labels owing tens of millions of dollars in back payments to music publishers.
Rights issue dogs CD protection | CNET News.com
It seems the plan, so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel, to stop copying of CDs had a little problem. What most of these copy protection thingies do is to include two copies of each sone. One full quality for your CD player, and one lesser quality song for when you pop the CD into your computer.
And since there are two copies of each song on the CD, the record labels should be paying the people holding the rights to the songs twice, once for each copy of the song.
Way to go, I say. The copy protections on the CDs are nothing but trouble.