Such irony: Bruce Springsteen recorded a tribute album for Pete Seeger, anti-property agitator and old-guard leftist. Springsteen’s label slapped a super-restrictive DRM on the disc that prevents PC playback, ripping to MP3, and lots of other freedoms that are totally in synch with the poltiical messages in Seeger’s music.
(Thanks Rob!)
Update: Some readers report having bought copies of this disc without any apparent DRM — we’ve seen this before, as with the Coldplay disc, where some copies have DRM and some don’t. It can indicate that either the label was too cheap to buy DRM licenses for all the copies it shipped, or that copies produced for another country got the DRM and have wandered into the US retail channel (or vice-versa).