Re: New CD access restriction

Tim Jackson wrote:
> My thoughts exactly. It's distasteful, and still avoiding the real
> problem, but it may form an uneasy compromise. Certainly, unlike discs
> with TOC/audio corruption, I'd be prepared to buy CDs that have a clear
> audio session with no silly stuff, even if they do have data sections with
> dodgy software. The only difficulty of course for people like you or me is
> telling the difference...the labelling is hardly going to say "Playable
> only on Windows, unless you know how to rip audio data from the audio
> session"; most likely it will remain largely the same. So, when picking up
> a CD, you or I won't know whether it's a "really corrupt" or a "not really
> corrupt, but fools Joe Average" disc. And, as you point out, there's
> always the danger that a subtle change is made to the "format" which means
> that some audio-session corruption is added.

Yes, thanks for the feedback.  I will probably go with the approach I
mentioned, then.

> There is obviously an interesting EUCD relevance here, with respect to
> providing information about how, or tools to circumvent the "effective
> technological protection" (as it would no doubt be classed).

Yes, that's when we take to the streets!

That would clearly be bending the definition of 'effective' to the
limit, but yes, they may try and push this thought-form into common
acceptance, so that is something to watch out for (e.g. informing
journalists if they have been duped by the hype, etc).

Cheers --

Jim

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