It's abusing the standard, which can break compliant implementations.

Especially bad since most Audio CD players are opaque hardware without update-able firmware.

You're right. We should start a letter-writing campaign to President Bush. Maybe it will make the nightly news.

Sent from my Discman

Has this been shown to be actually-problematic in the three decades since Willy Nelson's album contained a song in the pregap of track 1?

Yes, there's been a serious issue recently reported. Apparently, it has triggered bureaucrats on the internet who can't acknowledge something innocuous that's never caused any problem for decades.

Link?

of course not.