Dataplay Ready to Launch

Posted by michael on Saturday April 20, 2002 @07:25AM from the impact-crater dept.

geophile writes "Let's see. This is a CD-like, CD-incompatible storage medium with lower storage capacity than a CD; copying, which is supported by CDs and permitted by fair-use laws is not possible; and it's more expensive than a CD. Read about this great idea here." We've done a couple of stories on the Dataplay discs; this one discusses the heavy content controls built-in. MSNBC had an article on Dataplay a few weeks ago that mentions an "education process" needed to get people to re-buy all their old music in a new format.

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Mossbergt Article by asv108 · 2002-04-20 08:18 · Score: 5, Informative

Walt Mossberg has a good review of Dataplay. He sights numerous reasons why it will fail, but his main objection is the rights managment, "feature." I submitted it a few days ago but:
* 2002-04-18 07:06:54 Copying Limits Stifle Innovation (articles,news) (rejected)