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SAN FRANCISCO — Hoping to crack down on music piracy, five major record labels have quietly begun selling compact discs containing technology that foils attempts by customers to copy the songs onto blank discs or computer hard drives.
The new strategy isn’t widespread yet and most of the CDs out so far are being sold in Europe. The labels will not say which artists’ works have been digitally padlocked.
The so-called stealth CDs play fine in stereos.
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