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Natalie Imbruglia's new album first major UK CD release to feature Cactus Data Shield

NTKnow, the "the weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the uk", reports "Natalie Imbruglia's 'White Lillies Island' album has beaten Michael Jackson to the public enemy number one spot by being the first major UK CD release to feature Cactus Data Shield, a copy protection system which ostensibly prevents MP3 swapping by corrupting the table of contents so it won't play on PCs... In a bizarre bid to pacify PC users, the disc also contains a Windows app which will play the entire album from a chunked 42meg MP3 file - at a scorching 128kbps, hi-fi fans... but NTK reader MIKE GRAY has already successfully burned the files and the player onto a CDR... So: a CD which won't play under Linux or MacOS, but which is actually easier to pirate under Windows?" A note to the music industry: I am never going to buy a copy protected CD.