New Scientist reports that Sony has been developing a copy protection scheme for CDs called Cactus. The scary thing about Cactus is that a pirated CD could end up wiping out your expensive speakers.
What I don’t understand, though, is why Sony continues to sell consumer-level CD recorders if it doesn’t want people copying CDs. Their promo material for their RCD-W1 dual-deck system even brags that it has “4X high speed dubbing.”