Sony begins sale of new copy-protected CDs - The pulse 2: the best of J@pan Inc's newsletters - Brief Article

Japan, Inc., March, 2003

Sony Music Entertainment announced in January that it has started sales of new CD singles that can only be copied once onto a user's computer. Using a new proprietary format called LabelGate, the CDs will direct the user to Sony's Web site for a payment of [yen] 200 if the user tries to copy the contents more than once.

Sony says that all singles issued from mid January will use the new format and that albums will adopt the format in April.