Exploding CD drives

Cory Doctorow 8:13 pm Wed Apr 9, 2003

An unforeseen consequence of very high-speed CD-ROM drives is that sometimes they spin the disks so fast, they explode.

I’m going to send it back to the manufacturer. With the CD pieces. I doubt they’ll do anything. It’ll be blamed on the user. I put the CD in wrong. Or I somehow compromised the overall inherent goodness of their product. I could talk to the record company, but that would be pointless. They would sue me for pirating and put me in jail with the college kids who set up that P2P server. Worse, I’d tell them during the interrogation that the reason why they’re suffering in sales is due to the fact that 98% of the music they put out is complete (Edited) (Edited) (Edited) (Edited) (Edited) (Edited) crud. Radio is a musician’s enemy these days.

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