First of all, the US Autechre LP5 CD always had 12 tracks. There is some
silence at the end of track 11, so you might have thought the disc was over at
that point. But track 12 was always there. (I believe the UK version has the
last song as part of track 11, though, but the effect is the same.)
However, here's a scary thought:
Lee Azzarello wrote:
quoted 3 lines I assume limiting plays on a piece of read-only optical
> I assume limiting plays on a piece of read-only optical
> media would be impossible since there would be no
> way to write that value on the disc.
Actually, there is a company out there trying to do this very thing with DVDs,
but in a very different way.
There was an article on Wired News last week which described a company trying
to come up with a film that you could coat a DVD with. This particular film
would be "activated" by the reading of the DVD by a laser, and over some period
of time, would eventually turn blue. At that point, the DVD would become
unreadable, I guess because the laser can't reflect properly through blue.
The article is at:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33781,00.html
If they are able to actually make this work, it could be done for music CDs as
well. Honestly, I don't know why anyone believes there's a big market for
this. But clearly, some people do.
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