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Philips Says Compact Discs Can't be Copyprotected

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the voice-of-reason dept.

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.

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  1. It's nice to see... by wo1verin3 · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    big business supporting the little guys.

    Regardless of copyright, would they not be in violation of copyright for producing a device that bypasses a circumvention method?

    DMCA seems to be more important then other laws, such as fair use lately.

    I wonder if Phillips is prepared to fight against the DMCA, that would be a huge boost in the fight.
    If they do, my next cd-rom will be phillips.

  2. Re:Yes! Phillips rocks. by Count · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Get a Apex AD-500w at your local walmart for $99 ..then go to http://www.apexmodchip.com/order.html and oder you a mod chip for $20 bucks and your set. Unless you mean a DVD player for your pc.

  3. Re:Why was this modded down? by spectral · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    didn't you read the article? Punishment is required! i say all mod points are negative, except potential positives.. get rid of the crap that the majority doesn't want me to see, because they're always right and knows what's best for me better than i do, right?

  4. Re:Perfect. by stripes · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The infamous Amazon "one-click" patent on the other hand, is the worst of both worlds. They're only using it to try to harm Barnes & Noble. Patents have largely devolved from a way to protect innovation to a way to stifle it.

    Not true, they not only attempt to harm B&N with it, but extort money from Apple and others who license it...