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There is no copy controlled software on US or UK releases of Beastie Boys' To the 5 Boroughs. The copy protection system used in Europe and other territories on select EMI/Capitol releases including To the 5 Boroughs is Macrovision's CDS-200, which sets up an audio player into the users RAM (not hard drive) to playback the Yellow book audio on the disk. None of the copy protection in CDS-200 requires software applications to be loaded onto a computer. Contrary to rumor, it does absolutely NOT install any kind of spyware onto the users system. None of the copy protection associated with CDS-200 requires software applications to be loaded onto a computer.

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The hiatus is back off, again, for the Beastie Boys, and music lovers will bob their heads with insuppressible glee. With its Nice & Smooth impersonations and shout outs to Brooklyn's Albee Square Mall, To the 5 Boroughs, their first album in six years, harkens the return of the trio to the city that made them who they are today. It's an up-tempo yet surprisingly homogenous assemblage of vintage electro-style party beats, and it's a strictly Beastie affair: the Boys co-wrote and produced each track themselves, which means that it sports none of the sonic fripperies and quirky collaborations that distinguished previous classics such as Paul's Boutique. Finally jelling after two years of on-again, off-again recording, To the 5 Boroughs will appeal to those fans old enough to remember the Licensed to Ill tour. Those old-schoolers are sure to appreciate the album's mostly off-the-cuff lyrics and minimal-to-the-extreme musical landscape--even if its stripped-down sound may leave others longing for the days when the Boys were California dreamin'. --Rebecca Levine

Rating : - This is rap
When you ask a teen today who listens to rap (which shouldn't be hard to find) and ask who is the #1 white rapper, 99.9% of the time they'll all say Eminem without thinking. Thats how MTV has raised the youth. The Beastie Boys can out rap Eminem anyday of the week. I use to love Eminem until the movie came out and he unleashed a slew of rappers upon us. I recently started listening to Beastie Boys and im floored. There rhymes are more clever then Eminems and they dont have to rap about hating there wifes, bringing along 50 friends to have rap careers, or telling people not to mess with them because they'll kill them. All in all, an amazing cd. This is rap music not the stuff you hear on the MTV or the radio. Thats all a phase, Beastie Boys will outlast and outshine all on comers.