YOU'D ALMOST THINK IT CAME FROM THE ONION

While the American leg of Sony-BMG are trying to remove the egg from their face and manage the slew of legal actions coming from the botched copy protection they'd been using, their Australian sister company have announced plans to introduce... yes, copy protected CDs:

The company's general manager for business and HR, Emmanuel Candi,told the Age newspaper the Australian protection software had not been chosen. "Obviously, we would be avoiding the candidates which have caused problems," he said.

Since there's not actually been a copy protection system which has yet not caused problems, we're fascinated to see what they have lined up. Perhaps every CD comes with a Sony employee who sits by your side and makes sure you're not stealing their stuff.

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