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The new Beastie Boys album may or may not automatically install a virus in your computer if you listen to it via that method.The Register has some advice on how to check for this, if it is in fact true. Beasties fans are discussing this on the Beasties website. Their website administrator has said... "Just to clarify, here's the deal with the copy protection on the CD:
a) The copy protection is in all territories except the US and UK - US and UK discs do not have this protection on them;
b) All EMI CDs are treated this way, TT5B isn't protected in any special way;
c) Beastie Boys would have preferred not to have the copy protection, but weren't allowed to go against EMI policy in these territories."

Oh, so it's not the Beasties fault, it's their evil label. The one that paid for the studio they built in NY, just like the one they paid for in LA. But it appears from comments by their fans that the copy-protected cd is being sold in the States.
Their webmaster also adds that "The copy protection system used for all EMI/Capitol releases including "To the 5 Boroughs" is Macrovision's CDS-200, which sets up an audio player into the users RAM (not hard drive) to playback the RED book audio on the disk. It does absolutely NOT install any kind of spyware, shareware, silverware, or ladies wear onto the users system. You can find more information on the technology used here:
www.macrovision.com"

Except Phillips, who helped establish the Red Book audio standard for CDs back in the early 80s refuse to recognise such copy-protected cds as complying with those standards, as they are corrupted CDs!
It does install a player when you first load it in your computer, and you can navigate to find where the uninstall feature is on the cd, cept clicking uninstall seems to do nothing - it uninstalls in less than a second, which makes me think it doesn't really uninstall at all, just gives the appearance of doing so.

UPDATE: From Russell Browns Hard News... "EMI is effectively installing a virus. If EMI really wants legislators to go ahead and forcibly remove its copyrights, it's going precisely the right way about it. Don't you dare, ever install anything on my computer without telling me, okay? Bastards."