The Recording Industry's Latest Bright Idea

[JohnnyCNote]

Labels to dampen CD burning?

The recording industry is testing technology that would prevent consumers from making copies of CD "burns," a piracy defense that could put some significant new restrictions on legally purchased music.

Tools under review by the major labels would limit the number of backups that could be made from ordinary compact discs and prevent copied, or "burned," versions from being used to create further copies, according to Macrovision and SunnComm International, rivals that are developing competing versions of the digital rights management (DRM) software.

If implemented widely, the new technology would mark a substantial change in the way ordinary people can use purchased music, possibly alienating some customers, analysts said. Given the costs of piracy, however, the labels are moving ahead cautiously in the hope of striking on a formula that works.

[The village idiot]

I'll say it once again, if I can't rip it into my computer, so I can use it with any digital player (could be wave for all we know), then it will be the last legal music I ever purchase.

If I can rip it into a computer then there is little they can do to limit the number of copies I could make.

[Nilfennasion]

Also known as "flogging a dead horse".

[housepig]

pity how one pass through an analog output will make this protection worthless....

if I can hear it, it can be copied and disseminated....

[Nilfennasion]

I'll say it once again, if I can't rip it into my computer, so I can use it with any digital player (could be wave for all we know), then it will be the last legal music I ever purchase.

Amen to that. I didn't buy a MiniDisc player so that I could buy the same music twice.

[Greg12]

I love how the RIAA is always going on about renting music. I dont wanna f!cking rent music.

All you gotta do is rip that cd to a CD image and then run some program that will be out 3 months before the encryption to remove the lock.

[indolikaa]

Flogging a dead horse is right.


I guess I'll just move from ripping it on my computer to extracting it on the 'D' side of my 'D/A' converter. And it's not like I'm unhappy with the quality of analog audio my home CD player produces in the first place...

[fmctm1sw]

pity how one pass through an analog output will make this protection worthless.....

Yeah, and everyone laughed at me when I didn't have a DVD writer and was playing my DVD player output into my cap card and making backup VCD's. Who's laughing now? I'm a pioneer! :P

[indolikaa]

pity how one pass through an analog output will make this protection worthless.....

Yeah, and everyone laughed at me when I didn't have a DVD writer and was playing my DVD player output into my cap card and making backup VCD's. Who's laughing now? I'm a pioneer! :P

Rock on, dude. VideoCD still kicks ass.


I'm not worried about digital copy protection. If I can't hack it, I have an excellent CD player with a great analog output section, and the necessary A/D conversion process to make a fantastic CD...

[SatStorm]

The big ones, won't allow for long, the so called "analogue hole".

Not that they gonna succeed something, but with HDTV is already impossible to capture the analogue way the whole video info.

[flaninacupboard]

what player have you got indo?
i'm a NAD man myself

[Sillyname]

Isn't that what SCMS was all about? You can't make copies of a copy because the SCMS bit is flipped on a copy. CDs have had that option available since the very beginning.