All CDs will be protected and you are a filthy pirate (The Register): basically EMI and BMG have begun copy-protecting all CDs in Europe. The problem is that CDs were not designed to be copy protected. The copy protection schemes in use cause the CDs to be unplayable in all sorts of CD players, though in theory the goal is just to prevent people from digitizing the CDs. More than ever, I'm committed to boycotting the music industry. I don't engage in music trading, but I do like to have our entire music collection in mp3 format. If I can't buy the music and know it'll work as a CD, then I won't buy any.

I dumped my Yahoo! stock earlier this week, not at the highest but I got a decent return. Turns out to be prescient given that Softbank also dumped its shares (they had a few more than I did) according to c|net: Yahoo slides on downgrade, Softbank sale