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Sony Adds New Copyright Method to CD's in 2003

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flap:
Why would anyone with an internet connection be *buying* cds?

rtgwbmsr:
I stopped buying CDs about 1 and a half years ago...

But a "Fuck Sony" is necessary here.

DC:

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:
People will not pay more money for less functionality. It will not work. Do you think people would start paying $40,000 for cars that can only be driven on highways when they can pay $20,000 for cars that can be driven anywhere? Any time consumers are about to lose out, we rebel the only way we know how. We dont buy the product. Dont worry about new expensive copyright protection. It is doomed to fail. If not, we can always move back to cassettes.
--- End quote ---

Sure - just tell them it stops computer viruses or something. People are stupid, people don't care. Give it a flashy package with a hot chick and it'll go off. In case you don't know, we are an exception. Go to one of your less geeky (no offence, geeks are cool) friends and ask them what they think about DRM. Watch that blank face.

*apparently* this scheme isn't too hard for whoever uses something else than WinPC's to play the stuff - including Linux and normal CD players, but it's still bad. How the hell can I rip every CD I buy to Ogg (which is legal - I hate disk swapping) when they do this stuff for a Linux system?

Anyway, copy protection scemes can always be avoided in free societies - as long as audio needs to travel through a wire to the speakers, that wire can be tapped. So just make sure your society doesn't fall into totalitary hands.

xyle_one:
i kinda hope this drm music bullshit gets people to stop buying the corporate music. i fucking cant stand britney spears, nsync, all of that shit. they are a bunch of no talent hacks, who have turned an art form into an industry. a music "indsutry"!!? what the fuck. i really hope that this causes people to stop buying it because the corporations told them to, and they start to discover real music, local music, music with style. no more linkin park, no more limp biskit. i do not own one cd that is not, in my opinion, art. the music i buy has something that those corporate bands lack. talent, originality, they even play their own instruments and write their own songs. there are all true artists. i guess what i want to see is a music revolution.

emh:
To get around this, all you need is a portable CD player, a 1/8" cable to connect to the Line in jack of your sound card, and a program that records wave files.  (in any operating system)  Then, you've got the song on your computer without any digital restrictions at all.

[ November 23, 2002: Message edited by: emh ]

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