IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS ALREADY, Wired has a story on how Sony’s latest CD copy-protection technology is readily defeated by magic markers. It may crash your computer, even when you’re just trying to listen to a CD you’ve bought — but it won’t stop anyone trying to make copies, unless the RIAA succeeds in a new campaign to ban magic markers.

Jeez. Maximal inconvenience, minimal effectiveness: Sony must have hired the same corps of elite security specialists who are advising the airport security establishment.