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Then they can expect them to be returned in bulk as people take them to work
etc and find they cannot play them on there PC.
If they do not comply to the red book standards then I believe they cannot
use the compact disc logo on them, meaning that they will have to come up
with some new term for them...
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From: Jim Resinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 3:58 PM
Subject: MD: Copy-Proof CDs
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>I thought you might be interested in this. It bodes ill for all of us.
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>COPY-PROOF CDs
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>C-Dilla, recently acquired by Macrovision, is developing technology
>that is said to prevent a computer's CD-ROM drive from playing music
>CDs, making it impossible to copy them with a CD-R drive or post them
>on the Internet. Slated for introduction next year, the AudioLok
>system is said to also prohibit copies from being made in consumer CD
>recorders -- and even to prevent a digital signal from being passed
>through a player's digital outputs.
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>The system works by adding false codes to a music CD so that it looks
>like a CD-ROM to a computer The codes are ignored by CD players, but
>the discs appear corrupt and unreadable on CD-ROM drives.
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>So although the recording industry's Secure Digital Music Initiative
>(SDMI) has reached the reluctant conclusion (albeit with the help of
>court decisions) that consumers should be allowed to copy digital
>content onto storage media, your right to do so isn't yet fully
>secure.
>
>--Brian C. Fenton. "Random Play." STEREO REVIEW'S SOUND & VISION.
> September 1999. p. 16
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