Copy protection (from NTK 2001-09-21)

[Owen Blacker]

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It just occurred to me, I take it that obstructing our Fair Use is in no
way illegal in GB then?  :(

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny O'Brien [mailto:danny@spesh.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 5:14 PM
> To: NTK now
> Subject: NTK now, 2001-09-21
> 
>                     >> HARD NEWS <<
>                   smoothed, criminal
> 
> MICHAEL JACKSON's new single seems likely to "Rock Your
> World" in more ways than one, as promotional copies sent out
> by Sony appear to be the first examples spotted "in the
> wild" of audio CDs which won't play in PC CD-ROM drives.
> "When loaded into the CD drive, the disc spun continuously
> as though the drive was trying to access the TOC of a blank
> or corrupted CDR", reports our correspondent, a producer and
> sound engineer, adding: "None of our stand-alone
> professional or domestic CD players had a problem with it".
> Of course, this is exactly what Macrovision's SafeAudio (or
> similar copy-protection systems) are intended to do: insert
> "bad" error-correction codes, which audio CD players can
> interpolate around, but higher-precision CD-ROM drives
> don't, effectively preventing you from ripping (or listening
> to) any tracks on your PC. The UK's Campaign for Digital
> Rights (formerly the "Free Dmitry Sklyarov" guys) are still
> planning a leafleting campaign alerting shoppers to this
> ingenious reduction of their music's self-healing properties
> (making CDs more susceptible to scratches or other damage) -
> though perhaps an "explicit lyrics"-style labelling system
> wouldn't go amiss either, for those of us who just don't own
> a non-CD-ROM CD player.
> http://uazu.net/cd/
>           - like anyone with a PC is still buying CDs anyway
> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/08/encrypt.html
>    - apparently not as good as Jacko's earlier, audible work
> 
>                      NEED TO KNOW
> THEY STOLE OUR REVOLUTION. NOW WE'RE STEALING IT BACK.
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>  Copying is fine, but include URL: http://www.ntk.net/

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