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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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This C-Dilla copy-protection attempt is blatantly violating the "fair-use"
provisions concerning home recording because of many reasons:
1) It violates the "DAT Pact" struck down in 1989, which permitted one
generation of copying to be done on a consumer digital recorder -- thus
violating the codified "fair-use" statutes in the Audio Home Recording Act.
2) It violates the "gentlemen's agreement" surrounding consumer CD-R
intruduction; where consumer CD-R recorders have to be equipped with SCMS
(according to the "DAT Pact") and can only write to CD-R discs equipped with
a special fingerprint code.
3) It violates the SDMI agreement which affects MP3 and similar devices.
Furthermore, unless the technology is authorised by Philips and Sony as a
legitimate extension of the Compact Disc Digital Audio standard, there would
be no guarantee of playability of these discs and they would not be eligible
to display the Compact Disc Digital Audio logo. For a technology to be
authorised as a legitimate extension, discs have to be played on any CD
device that bears the logo. Also the CD-player software written for CD-ROM
drives is expected to make the CD-ROM drive play these discs.
With regards,
Simon Mackay
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