No Rock And Roll Fun

PROTECTION: There's an interesting little aside in an interview with Sue Whitehouse, the manager of the Darkness: it seems record companies lie to the very talent they're supposedly protecting about how crappy their copy protection is:

"When we first released the album we had it copy-protected, which I didn't want. I really argued that you hear terrible things about CDs not working and messing up computers, but the record company talked me into it, saying that there was new technology that had proved to be problem-free. And, of course, the album came out and we were flooded with complaints about it not working."