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| An irregularly updated journal of my Fair and Balanced thoughts, reactions, opinions, biases, outrages, strategies, victories, and commentary. Whatever it is, it's much too subtle to be considered a parody... |
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January 18, 2002
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According to The Register, Philips is considering withholding permission to use the official CD Logo  on CDs that are copy protected if they won't play in DVD players, Macs, and CD burners. They almost have to do this, if they've certified that those devices (which Philips also produces, coincidentally) will play any Red Book compliant disc. So if they will play any Red Book disc and they won't play More of The Fast and The Furious, then it can't be a Red Book compliant disc. Simple logic. It'll be interesting to see how this is resolved.
In other exciting CD news, the same Register story tells of Philips exciting take on the DMCA. They will produce CD burners which ignore the copy protection, because it's not really copy protection. It's an anti-playback scheme, not an anti-copy scheme. They're right, but only because it's of no use to copy something if it can't be played back. Seems like the RIAA didn't get everyone on the bus before they left the station...
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| .:Posted by Michael on January 18, 2002 11:39 AM:.
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