Charles Heffner of Fat Chuck’s has started a corrupt CD database, so that you, the consumer, are adequately warned of defective product.
The page includes a list of things to do in case of purchasing a corrupt CD and a page of news articles on the subject.
Also on Fat Chuck’s is a nice page of banned books.
Chuck’s list now includes “Triple J: Hottest 100, Vol.3 (EMI/Virgin)”. I would say that this makes the value of Chuck’s list somewhat dubious. Volume 3 of the Hottest 100 series was released over five years ago, for one thing. I would say it’s far, far more likely that whoever submitted that release as a “corrupt” CD was having problems with the “enhanced CD” portion; it was mastered by EMI/Warner’s D.A.T.A. plant, who don’t exactly have a perfect track record with such formats. I’ll retrieve my copy from work, though, and give it a thorough check. But the main problem that I can see with any internet database of “corrupt” CDs is that 99% of internet users wouldn’t have the faintest clue how to tell the difference between a “corrupt” disc and the inadequacies of their CD-ROM drive and the software they’re running with it.
After your post, the Triple J CD’s listing is now categorised under ‘Corrupt CDs Or Crap Production?’.