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Philips Says Compact Discs Can't be Copyprotected
Tomcat666 writes "tecChannel has a story about Philips, the holder of the most CD digital audio (CD-DA) patents. Apparently, they don't like the audio CD copy protection many record companies want to enforce in the future. They break the CD-DA standard and therefore are not allowed to use the logo. As a conclusion, Philips' next audio CD copier will be able to detect and probably circumvent the copy protection of audio CDs."
This article is Auf Deutsch but the fish does a tolerable job of
making it sane for those who can't remember the proper gender of all
their nouns.
Phillips is doing practically everything I would have wanted a hardware manufacturer (and holder of the CD Rom license) to do!
So, mmm, what's the giant conspiracy? Why is this happening?
As a conclusion, Philips' next audio CD copier will be able to detect and probably circumvent the copy protection of audio CDs.
"I've got to admit, it's getting better... it's getting better all the time..."
:-)
If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
"Philips indicted for violating DMCA, initiated by complaint from RIAA and MPAA"
Great Scott! I'm going to write to my Congressperson this very minute and lobby for an extension on patent lifetimes!
Nate
-- Watch the REAL Jon Katz.
I link that translation link. I found this quote to be a great summary of the whole CD copy protection issue:
said Philips speaker Klaus Petri: "those are silberscheiben with music drauf, which CDs resemble, but none are."
Damn straight, those new copy protected CD's really are a bunch of silberscheiben with music drauf.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
So do we support Phillips when they try to buy some "Mickey Mouse" legislation to extend their patent?
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
Phillips ?
/. so that people at least know the company name :-)
It seems like they need to do some more advertising on
They are already 100% safe from me even *thinking* about copying their stuff.
BTW, I haven't been keeping score. NSync is which rev of Menudo, exactly?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Heh, my company contracts CSC to provide internet and intranet services, and their web filter spat the following at me when I tried to translate the tecchannel.de page:
"The request was denied, as specified in the SmartFilter Content Filter configuration. The content category reported is sex."
I'd say that's pretty savvy of CSC, 'cuz the article is indeed about how consumers are getting sodomized by the RIAA!
I can see the fnords!
You mean like this
-no broken link
Woah!!!!! I must have spontaneously moved into some alternate dimension where people on slashdot are actually bemoaning the expiration of a patent!
If the producer can no longer use the "compact disk" trademark to describe their disks, do we hear commercials that sound like "Available on cassette and round silver disks that might play in your CD player"?
lol is that OSDN's MS-DOS version!
;)
No actually, its Backslashdot, the opposite of Slashdot: News for companies, cash that matters
"I remember Y1K, every abacus had to get another bead"
Some of the more accurate terms that you might prefer to use are "copy prevention" (that's what those technologies actually try to do) or "usage control" (that's the effect of copy prevention, e.g. your choice of playback devices is limited). To describe a media that is crippled by usage control technology, you can use something like "restricted use media."
:).
How about Digital Usage Management of Bits, then we can force everyone to say copy control is DUMB. Of course adding Extraction Restrictions makes it DUMBER
Alex
It's definitely not a non-event, quite the opposite actually.
Stated more simply:
It's an event.
I was on the toilet taking a dump this morning and noticed that there was like five or six patents listed on the toilet paper package!?!? I guess people didnt wipe thier asses before Charmin.