I believe the record companies have to place a note on the CD, if its "protected". The reason is of course, that people who want to play the CD on some kind of computer, can't play them. That already led to a lot of complaints and it looks as if the companies are having a problem. In a way smaller labels seem to get an advantage from this, as they stil usually don't have protection, and automatically have a wider potential buyers group. And it's cooler.
We had big discussions here on the list about this, and I remember myself supporting the artists, who, in my believe, have a right to be protected, and that is getting money for their work. However, it's the majors of course, who push this protection campaign, as they will gain unequally more benefits from it. But it's a much discussed problem, even among them, that much I know.
It's still a pretty unanswered question for me, what's right or what's wrong. If anybody knows a good practical techno-juristical solution, that will give everybody what s/he deserves, I would be interested to hear about it.
Thanks to Mike for always updating us on what's going on in the white collar world!
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Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 22:06:46 +0100
From: moritzR@t-online.de (moritzR)
Subject: Re: (exotica) more anti-copy cd news
Stilgloria@aol.com schrieb:
> In a message dated 12/1/01 12:39:25 PM, bag@hubris.net writes:
>
> << It doesn't bother me TOO much about the inability to make DIGITAL copies
> of CDs. Analog copies are good enough for me. >>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here. If I try to burn one of these copy-protected
> CDs on my stereo component CD Burner (NOT a computer burner), is this digital
> or analog? Sorry, I'm not a computer nerd.
No. You can just go from the usual analog output of your stereo into the audio (still analog) of your computer, then digitally record that signal with some audio program, extract the file, define the startpoints of those tracks and give them a number (btw, Byron, does your program do that perhaps automatically?), and then you save those tracks and burn them as usual, with a digital result, that may sound a little bit worse, but not much. So it's simply more work for a fairly equal result.
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