Is CD Copy Protection Illegal?

ribbiting writes "US Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va. is asking RIAA execs to explain how they can collect royalties on various blank media at the same time that the RIAA members are implementing copy protection mechanisms, with particular reference to the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA) of 1992." Glad someone is asking the question.

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What about the Telco

[mfos.org]

This seems similar to the Bells and AT&T selling the consumer Caller ID, then CID blocker to the telemarketers, then selling caller id blocker blocker to the consumer, then ....

Re:What about the Telco

[ImaLamer]

Actually!

I worked for Gannett Tel-Sel which is of course a division of Gannett Media.

At their Cincinnati office [sells the Cincinnati Enquirer] we had a problem coming. Cincinnati Bell was going to implement the 'your number is blocked - enter the number now' service.

Basically if you called me now from a private line you would get a message asking you to put in your 10 Digit number [or any 10 numbers!].

The automated dialing system wouldn't like this one bit. Two days before the system was rolled out 10 execs came in to talk to our supervisors.

I don't know what went on in that meeting, actually it was the only thing I never found out in that office. But I do know there were several calls to and from the firm that setup the auto-dial system.

One day later we had techs out the wazoo making upgrades left and right.

I couldn't get inside the meeting because it was for the 'downtown' people and the uber managers.

Want anymore info on this tiny organization? Like how the Tele-Zapper doesn't affect the system? How the uber-uber manager got her job by threatening to sue for sexual harrassment but kept a manager who twice committed statutory rape; of course with a telephone sales rep? How the person who was going to 'rat' was pushed out of her job? [and the woman who quit was so beloved, I for one cried her last day because she would do anything for us 'kids']