On Monday 25 March 2002 16:55, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Dave Steinberg quotation: > > 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." > > I don't understand this. What is this "hidden signature", and how does > it prevent the disc from playing on a CD-ROM drive? If the disc is fully > Red Book-compliant, then why would it not play? Is this a cheap trick > like putting a faulty non-audio session on the disc (separate from the > Red Book CD audio data) in the hope that a CD-ROM drive would be > confused by it, and therefore be unable to read it?
Now that I think about it, I remember on the show TheScreenSavers (http://thescreensavers.com), they had a show where the took apart a CD Player (sorry I don't remember the brand) and found a computer CD-ROM inside. Will the CDs play on this equiptment? Who would be liable if not? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
