Next Restricted CD Coming Soon

jroysdon writes: "Music industry quietly unveiling copy-proof CDs - 'Gariano said the CD case would carry a copy protection sticker and an insert explaining the technology. Record stores will accept returns, even if the CD case is opened, if buyers are unhappy with it.' I say we specifically look for titles with this sticker, purchase them, give them a whirl in our PCs and see them not play, and return them. Vote with not just our money, but their overhead costs to handle all the returned merchandise and bad publicity when stores don't want CDs with those stickers." Read the article - there are some great quotes there.

Comments

Good story, dumb advice.

[Junks Jerzey]

vote with not just our money, but their overhead costs to handle all the returned merchandise and bad publicity when stores don't want CDs with those stickers

And what will this prove? That you really *were* going to copy the data to your computer and likely let your friends to the same? Look, if you're against this sort of thing then you shouldn't be looking to a giant record company to be providing you with your music. Listen to freely available MP3 files instead. Oh, they suck, do they? Well isn't that a surprise.

Re:Just use a CD player with optical out

[JabberWokky]

doing it in real time. Glad you paid extra for that 50X speed cdrom drive?

I can download an album from Napster faster than I can rip it. And it's easier. Many of the MPSs I have correspond to CDs in my Sony disc changer - but I downloaded them off of OpenNap servers.

If it's harder to rip, people will just download the MPSs. Later, they will start to wonder why they are bothing to buy the CD, since it has basically been rendered useless.

--
Evan

All MP3 users are pirates?

[ryanwright]

Digital music market analyst Lee Black of Webnoize said most people who listen to music on their computers, usually as MP3 files, aren't buying CDs anyway.

Lee Black of Webnoize is a complete fucking moron. Mr. Black, you don't have a clue what you are talking about. I don't know anyone who still listens to their original CDs; they convert them to MP3 format the second they buy them and put the CD in a box. How else do you explain the millions of portable, car and home based MP3 players being sold in this country?

OHHhhhh, that's right, you really believe that none of these people buy CDs. Nope - they all steal the music they listen to. I guess the 30GB of MP3 files on my server cancel out the thousand some odd CDs in my collection. Well, Mr. Black, fuck you for accusing me. Fuck you and everyone else who shares your idiotic viewpoint. Crawl back into the hole you came from and don't come out until you've got half a clue.

Re:What is wrong with this?

[kindbud]

Fair use issues aside...

The copyright fascists always start here.

They are willing to please the consumers ...

You really don't seem to understand. Customer service is a cost, not an asset. It is a drag on profit growth, not a virtue. By becoming a monopoly - or close to it - you can avoid most of the costs of customer service, because no matter how badly they are treated the customers have no where else to go. That is what all the legal aggressiveness towards the P2P services is all about. The recording industry is reaping record profits. Their financial statements filed every quarter with the SEC are the proof. No one is getting hurt but the customers and the artists, but the artists were being hurt all along, before the Internet. These are the facts. Any attempt to deal with this subject while avoiding the facts is futile, and probably dishonest too.

This is the only way ...

There are always other ways. This is another lie often repeated, but repetition creates boredom, not truth.

Re:not all stores will accept open returns

[iCEBaLM]

What a childish moderation.

-- iCEBaLM

Re:Just use a CD player with optical out

[czardonic]

People who dismiss news like this with statements like, "who cares? I can get around this with technique X," are playing right into the copy-prevention advocates' hands. They're just trying to get the *idea* of copy prevention accepted by the public.

Question: If the people who want to defeat the protection can, what difference does it make?

Using a digital output is a great short term solution, but there will undoubtably be ways to do this with software. Thus, as long as there are PC drives that can read CDs, copy-protection schemes are moot. (And even after that, someone will hack the next generation of music media players.)