This will be my final post in this thread (global sighs of relief)... 1) The EULA agreement for an SACD dramatically restricts the rights of the "end-user" - which is specifcally the purchaser/"owner" - or more accurarately the licensee - of the disc.
2) the EULA has no relevance to the copyright HOLDER of the content of the SACD, they are by definition not an "end-user" or licensee. Their rights supersede the EULA. 3) Making a DSD stream available outside of the box of an SACD player in the manner discussed earlier in this thread does not violate DMCA. NO encryption or copy protection is being circumvented. The encrypted data sits on the disc itself. The Sony-licensed chipset is always being used to decrypt it. Once decrypted by legitimate means, the DSD stream is freely available whether Sony like it or not. Simply attaching a couple of wires to a chip can give you access to the legally DECRYPTED DSD stream. DMCA cannot prevent this (and doesn't seek to). Nor can Sony (although they don't like it, they can't actually prevent it). I've studied the documentation for my (Sony!!) SACD player (which I don't use by the way) very carefully and can find no mention of any legal restriction that prevents me from taking the legally decrypted DSD stream and doing anything with it that I want to (except of course I am completely constrained by the EULA that applies to the discs and their content...). However, the copyright holder of the content is not bound by the EULA. All of which goes to explain why there have been no legal actions surrounding this particular issue(AFAIK) and why there won't be in the future. If there were, the copyright holder would win. The supreme irony here of course is that in some cases Sony itself is the copyright holder... :-) Ciao! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
