Heads up, Mac users. It turns out that some new audio CDs using a particular type of copy protection can cause problems for Macs.
Epic/Sony's release of Celine Dion's A New Day Has Come audio disc this month, which included copy protection technology from Key2Audio, caused a furore after online sites reported that attempts to play the disc on a PC caused computers to crash.
The problem can be even more severe for Mac users.
Not only will the Celine Dion audio disc fail to play on new flat-screen iMacs but it will lock the CD tray and prevent the machine from been rebooted properly. This is not something users can fix themselves and means a trip to a dealer for repairs.
The Apple knowledge base article explaining the situation seems to have disappeared. This article explains how to eject a CD from a Mac running OS X when all else has failed.
Update >> The knowledge base article is back.
10:35:58 AM 
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