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Cactus Data Shield Tries Again

Posted by timothy on from the this-time-sit-on-the-needles-at-an-angle dept.

autocracy writes: "Midbar, an Israeli company that developed the breakage of standard called Cactus says that they have released more than 10 million CDs to the U.S. and Europe. They now claim that there will be no issues playing it but you will lose quality if you try to copy. I'm just wondering how it is that you can play it on a system at perfect quality, but when you copy it things don't sound right. Do they not know about optical output? Lame quotes including comments by the makers of how this is a 'proven technology' can be found at C|NET."

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  1. *sigh* by Perianwyr+Stormcrow · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Dude, you're gonna go to jail!"

    --

    What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.-Edward Abbey

  2. Re:Proven? by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > > > How many times do we have to explain that no anti-piracy technology will ever work flawlessly nor will it not be broken over time.
    >
    > > Until moderators stop moderating up the same, old, boring arguments.
    >
    > Or untill they stop posting the same, old, boring articles.

    Or until RIAA realizes that Midbar and all the other copy-control companies are selling nothing more than snake oil.

    Or until RIAA realizes that no matter how much money they have, we're still right - making bits uncopyable is like making water not wet - and they're wrong.

    Or (my personal hope) - until the combined weight of the bullshit coming out of Midbar's technical marketing staff's and Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti's shared hallucination is sufficient to gravitational collapse and becomes a black hole, thereby putting an end to RIAA, MPAA and the rest of the content control industry once and for all.