BoingBoing and Pandagon both have coverage of the following insert in the new Coldplay CD:

Of course, these rules are only visible after you’ve paid for the CD and brought it home, and as the disc’s rules say, “Except for manufacturing problems, we do not accept product exchange, return or refund,” so if you don’t like the rules, that’s tough. What are the other rules? Here are some gems: “This CD can’t be burnt onto a CD or hard disc, nor can it be converted to an MP3” and “This CD may not play in DVD players, car stereos, portable players, game players, all PCs and Macintosh PCs.” BoingBoing

We’ve no clue if they’ve broken the CD so it won’t play right or not; the copy we have at Heathen Central was purchased long ago, and we had no trouble ripping the tracks at all. Even if it’s just sabre rattling, though, a big “fuck you” to any buyer who wants to play it on an iPod, or any CD player they want, or some DVD players, or whatever. There’s got to be more to this, but that’s all we got for now.