FC: "Steal this music" while still in the store?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:28:40 -0700
To: declan () well com
From: "[confidential]
Subject: hmmm

"Steal this music" while still in the store!

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=4&id=229209

With this sort of device, I guess merely exposing the bar code on cd (or 
publishing a duplicate on a web site suitable for scanning ) becomes a 
"circumvention" under you know what....

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http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=4&id=229209
Friday, September 6, 2002 at 09:30 JST
TOKYO — Net venture business Planet Co said Thursday it has developed a 
personal digital assistant (PDA) that enables customers to "browse through" 
or listen to the contents of music CDs simply by having the PDA sensor 
recognize the bar code attached to CD's plastic cover.

Once a shopper brings the "HOTNAVI" PDA system close to the CD cover and 
lets it recognize the bar code, the music on that CD will be played back 
and radioed to the shopper via a headphone attached to the PDA, the company 
said. (Kyodo News)

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