New Pride CD cannot be copied

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New Pride CD cannot be copied; tracks can be downloaded only after disc is registered<P>Music City Records, a new independent label, is working with Phoenix-based SunnComm Inc. on a new CD by country music legend Charley Pride, slated for sale April 17. The disc is embedded with a special digital code intended to stymie would-be music pirates without compromising the rights or convenience of legitimate consumers, say record company representatives.<P>''It cloaks the CD and protects it from copyright infringement,'' said Music City Records board member Peter Trimarco yesterday from Phoenix, where he was overseeing the final testing of the new discs.<P>The CD plays in any CD player, but it cannot be duplicated with a CD burner or converted by a personal computer into MP3, the unencrypted file format favored by users of Napster and other music-sharing networks. It will cost the same and appear the same as a regular CD.<P>Consumers, however, can acquire MP3s of the music from the Pride album. When the disc is placed in a computer CD-ROM drive, it connects the consumer with a Web site. Once the user registers, he or she can store the album in MP3 form on a computer and download the tracks to a portable MP3 player.<P>Απο JustCD<P><BR>