Coolfer caught wind of a cute way to stop songs from being traded on P2P networks: Cut up each song into nine different tracks.

Publicists are sending out out advance copies of Heavens' Patent Pending, which Epitaph will release on September 12th, that have 11 songs and 99 tracks. Each song consists of 9 seperate, sequential tracks. Imagine the annoyance of grabbing all those tracks on Gnutella, or listening to the CD on shuffle.

Of course, some enterprising person could easily use an audio editor to combine all the tracks. Labels seem resigned to the fact that piracy will endure, but they aren't going to make it easy. As ESPN's Dan Patrick would say, "You can't hope to stop it, you can only hope to contain it."