After an initial attempt to play the disc on a PC resulted in failure, the edge of the shiny side of the disc was blackened out with a felt tip marker. The second attempt with the marked-up CD played and copied to the hard drive without a hitch.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52665,00.html
A mystery punter walked away with a cool $2.6 million after a TAB operator incorrectly entered his trifecta bet on the Melbourne Cup. The punter phoned a series of trifecta bets on the Melbourne Cup and one particular bet - a $6 box trifecta 20 times on the winning combination of Makybe Diva, She's Archie and Jardine's Lookout - was mistakenly... November 2003
http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,7853753-23209,00.html
A Thai woman hit the jackpot on her country's version of the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - only to lose it over a computer blunder. Organisers took away the 1 million baht prize money, worth about £16,000, after it was discovered a cable plugged into her computer monitor highlighted the correct answers. The cable was supposed to have been connected to the host's computer. March 2002
http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_550646.html?menu=
Lawyers representing the DVD industry made an embarrassing blunder when they accidentally published a program for copying DVDs on the Internet. January 2000
http://www.webactivemagazine.co.uk/News/105765
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