AOL wants to copy-protect CD's, boooo...

C|Net | at | by Mike

AOL Time Warner--owner of major record label Warner Music Group and America Online, the world's largest Internet service--confirmed the posting is authentic but declined to comment on its plans. CDs present a daunting security problem for the record labels. Created before the advent of the Internet and the MP3 file format, CDs can be easily copied, or "ripped," onto computers and subsequently traded on file-swapping networks such as Morpheus, Kazaa and LimeWire--a practice that the recording industry blames for declining sales.