Invisible wrote:

> Yes - but if you aren't the manufacturer, it's just a useless number to 
> you. The only reason this is usable is that somebody sat down and 
> somehow built a giant database containing all the serial numbers and the 
> matching metadata; AFAIK, the manufacturers didn't hand this data over, 
> some poor sod collected it.

And that's exactly how it happened. Except replace poor sod with 
CD-Ripping community. They'd tag the resultant MP3's and send the data 
to CDDB, which would then get sent out to anyone else who ripped the CD.

-- 
~Mike

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