Kenton A Hoover writes:
> It has to do with what you mean by playing "correctly". Introduction of
> single bit errors will likely not to even be detectable to the human ear.
> However, the logical place to insert such errors is on "block" boundries.
> Remember that CD-ROM ripping requires that you read the data off the disk
> in blocks, but the data wasn't written in blocks, so you have to guess
> how to turn the blocks into a single stream of bits. The attack is to try
> to make the reader confused about how the data is to be aligned together.
> If you are successful, the CD-DA can be played on any reader, but if you
> copy it, the audio will be damaged (or unusable).
What puzzles me, then, is the advertised claim that the new scheme would
foil standalone consumer audio CD recorders. If one of these discs is
played back on an audio CD player with S/PDIF output, and that output
reflects the reading/error correction process, why would a CDR machine
refuse to record that output? (SCMS aside).
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