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RIAA "computer glitch" bringing lots of Whitney to your library

As recompense for inflating CD prices, the RIAA agreed in a 2002 anti-trust settlement to distribute thousands of CDs to public libraries. Little did those libraries know they'd each end up with 148 copies of "Entertainment Weekly's Greatest Hits of 1971" and 430 singles of Whitney Houston singing the Star Spangled Banner at the 1991 Superbowl. A computer glitch ("allocation formula error") was blamed. (full article, via Boing Boing)