I believe it was Seth who first introduced me to the CDDB, now apparently controlled by GraceNote. I’ve only had to submit maybe two CDs and mostly reaped the benefits of other people who buy CDs much faster than I do. This ZDNet article discusses the legal nastiness going on between Roxio and GraceNote, and it tells some of the history of how a company got control over a database of information created by individuals’ submissions. In the near future, I imagine the title and track information will be part of the data on the CD, but the overall implications of the lawsuit could have greater repercussions for all types of data gathered by the public.