> > The whole problem is the copy problem, and it keeps recording industry
> > executives awake at night. Today using MP3, music can be stored and
> > distributed audio over the 'net without impediment. The recording
> > industry is working hard to change this. In SDMI phase II, CDs will
> > contain compression-proof watermarks that players will recognize (see
> > https://www.sdmi.org/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File-611/sdmiaug9.htm). The
> > intention is to thwart the free and easy movement of unpurchased audio
> > that MP3 has made possible.
> >
>
> If this CD is going to have a compression-proof watermark, how
> will the MD
> get "around" this watermark?
>
> James Tisdale
Saw this on slashdot.org earlier:
BMG-Entertainment started selling audio-CDs using the Cactus Data Shield, a
copy-protection system developed by Midbar and Sonopress which makes it
impossible to grab the music from the CD and to listen to it using "an old
CD-Player" or a CD-ROM-drive. It is used on the albums "Razorblade Romance"
by Him and "My Private War" by Philip Boa & The Voodoo Club. What's worse:
the copy-protection is not even mentioned on the outside of the CD-case,
and as these CDs are not really RedBook-compliant, they actually don't
contain CD Digital Audio.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/25/116237&mode=thread
I think it also results in the CD player putting out a duff SPDIF stream
too, preventing them from being copied digitally to MD.
>From the manufacturers site at http://www.midbartech.com/ :
---
The CACTUS DATA SHIELD prevents any type of unauthorized digital
duplication of CDs, DVDs and proprietary formats.
---
This is bad. After the fuss kicked up over V2's attempt at preventing
piracy by setting SCMS to "no copy", you'd have thought the music industry
would learn..
--
Simon
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