Autechre in lo-tech copy protection shocker

Promo copies of Autechre’s forth­com­ing album, Draft 7.30 (due April 7) are on cas­sette tape, pre­sum­ably to hinder those who might be tempted to make the record­ing avail­able through the inter­net. A nice lo-​tech solu­tion to the problem.

It’s not going to stop the file­shar­ing get­ting their mits on the goods, but it might slow the process down. I know that if Draft 7.30 had landed on my door­mat in CD format, it would have been uploaded to a cer­tain dis­creet file­shar­ing site I fre­quent by now. As it is, I can’t really be arsed get­ting my tape deck down from the top of the wardrobe to listen to it, let alone rip it to Mp3.

The insert also fea­tures an amus­ing reminder to hold off on that eBay auc­tion:
Any resale of this item is pro­hib­ited by law. How­ever, should you wish to resell the item ille­gally, we’d like to advise you that the market value of the item will increase sig­nif­i­cantly after the album’s release date.

Posted at 5pm on 09/01/03 by Jack Mottram to the music category.
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