Sony BMG pushing CD sterility

In their neverending quest to find new ways to alienate, annoy, and lose customers, Sony BMG Music Entertainment has settled on a new way to make sure that even if you are able to burn a copy of a CD, that at least you're not able to make additional copies of that copy. There are already ten titles out using First4Internet's XCP technology, which was introduced a couple of months ago and which embeds DRM into any copies that are made (oh, and you're actually limited to three first-gen copies). Probably won't do much to stop piracy (since there're probably already several workarounds), but probably will end up alienating people who do still buy CDs, especially since these copy-protected CDs have a nasty habit of not being compatible with all CD players. 

[Thanks, Mike]