Stupid question...I thought making a copy of the original CD to 'preserve' it was 'acceptable' use??
On another note, I buy CDs (I know I can 'share' but until now, I like have the originals, I still have a collection of LPs, but no turntable ;-) for my office to play while I'm working, on my PC. I have not used any of the file sharing services before, but... Now for the dark side... how hard can it be to connect a digital out on the cd player to a digital in on a computer and ... When will the get it through their heads, if it can be secured, it can be cracked! On Monday 25 March 2002 15:26, Dave Steinberg wrote: > On 25 Mar 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > I believe these copy-protection schemes work by introducing a lot of > > errors on the CD. Audio CD players skip them but computers treat the CD > > as faulty. > > > > If this were in Britain I would take the CD back to the shop as unfit > > for the purpose for which it was sold and/or complain to Trading > > Standards. I should have thought that you could do something similar in > > Germany, since the quality of the CD has been deliberately downgraded. > > Hi Oliver, hi all, > > In that case, get ready to start making a lot of trips to the record > store. > > From what I understand, Sony Music is, this week, starting to release all > new albums with their key2audio protection (http://www.key2audio.com/). > It seems the first disc to be crippled is the Celine Dion release, "A New > Day Has Come." Dion is, far and away, Sony's biggest selling artist, so > it's pretty safe to conclude that the experiments are over, and Sony is > going full speed ahead. > > According to the site, "...key2audio does not introduce artificial > (C2) errors into the music, thereby preserving the title's original sound > quality...A hidden signature applied to the disc during glass master > manufacturing prevents playback on PC/MAC and thereby prevents copying or > track ripping. The high reliability is due to the fact that the audio > part fully complies with the Red Book standard - not a single bit is > changed in the audio data stream - i.e.: no uncorrectable errors are used > to protect the audio data." > > Apparently, the discs are clearly labeled along the lines of "This CD > does not play on PC/MAC." > > If the claims of Red Book compliance are true, and the CD's are clearly > labelled as not playing on PC's, how can we justify returning them? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
