--- Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:41:40 +1100 From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochraneat_private> Reply-To: ncochraneat_private Organization: The Age newspaper Hi Declan According to the Reg, BMG says it will make only crippled music CDs from now on. These CDs don't work in many home stereos and car CD players, and even Philips has expressed its anger. BMG is unrepetent and claims its CDs are fully Redbook (audio CD standard) compliant and will continue to use the CD-logo, a trademark owned by Philips and used under license. It may be possible under consumer laws in many countries for disgruntled consumers to return these discs as if they were faulty, especially if the CDs are not clearly labelled as not being classic music CDs. This is something Australian consumer watchdogs have tracked and doubtless standards groups, such as Standards Australia and equivalent bodies elsewhere in the world, would have opinions. More: 'No more music CDs without copy protection,' claims BMG unit By John Lettice Posted: 06/11/2002 at 11:28 GMT Faced with adverse publicity to copy protection on CDs, a year ago Bertelsmann Music Group bravely gave in and promised to replace a clutch of Natalie Imbruglia CDs which were protected by Midbar's Cactus Data Shield. But a year is a long time, BMG is at it again, this time apparently set on applying copy protection to all its music products. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27960.html --- Copy protection on CDs is 'worthless' 19:00 06 November 02 The technology built into some CDs to stop people copying them is futile, according to a computer scientist who has put today's antipiracy systems under the microscope. He believes the continual software and hardware upgrades issued by the makers of computer CD drives and audio CD players render copy protection systems pointless in the long run. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993020 --- Battle lines over protection By NATHAN COCHRANE Tuesday 15 January 2002 Recently, millions of music CDs have been offered for sale in the US and Europe that will not play properly on personal computers, the source of music file sharing over the Internet. Klaus Petri, a spokesman for Philips, which, with Sony jointly holds most of the patents on the CD audio format, told Financial Times Deutschland that the Dutch pioneer is unhappy at the trend but will leave it to consumers to launch legal actions against the recording industry. The patents granted in the 1980s expire in the next two years. http://www.theage.com.au/business/2002/01/15/FFXR74U4FWC.html --- We should return all the "damaged CDs to the dealers for refund . If they have the Philips seal they are clearly defective and if they do not then they were falsely advertised Dave (Farber) From: Monty Solomon <montyat_private> The Big Rip-Off Labels move to block CD audio ripping Neil McAllister, Special to SF Gate Thursday, January 31, 2002 Judging by the way the major record labels have been acting lately, you'd think the compact disc was the biggest mistake they ever made. Never mind that the CD format has been outselling audiocassettes since 1991 -- the recording industry seems like it wants those silver discs off the shelves, and it's been working hard to do something about it. https://mail.lab.net/lists/archive/ip-exploder/2002-February.txt -- -- Nathan Cochrane Deputy IT Editor :Next: The Age and Sydney Morning Herald http://www.next.theage.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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