Philips Burning on Protection: ‘Electronics manufacturer Philips has been fanning the flames in the fight over copy-protected music CDs, threatening to undermine the record industry’s attempts to tinker with disc formats in order to thwart music pirates.

Could Philips take on the major labels and win? Yes, it could — but the company may only be hastening the death of the 20-year-old compact disc format.’ Wired