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Apple (R)ejects Copy Protection

Posted by pudge on from the heh-heh-heh dept.

Frogbeater writes "Apple keeps on keeping on with the anti-copy protection crowd by using their technical info database as a platform for denouncing the artists who are getting on the bandwagon." I like this line from the technote: You may be unable to eject certain copy-protected audio discs, which resemble Compact Discs (CD) but technically are not. Indeed.

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  1. Re:Getting the CD Out by oyenstikker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "users will think Apple is at fault for adhearing to the standards"

    Sad but true. Same people who think Mozilla is at fault for adhereing to the standards and breaking sites written for IE. Same people who think Firestone is at fault for sticking to their tire design and breaking when used with a very badly designed product (You didn't hear about those tires blowing on any of the millions of non-Fords they were on). People accuse the most obvious thing. My browser isn't working, must be the browser. The tire blew up, must be the tire. The CD drive got stuck, must be the CD drive.

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    The masses are the crack whores of religion.
  2. Re:TiBook CD/DVD eject issue by dtfarmer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So that's why those CD's weren't ejecting!

    I think the important point is that these are not CD's....

  3. Re:Getting the CD Out by TheAJofOZ · · Score: 3, Insightful
    If some black-hat hackers were stealthily distributing CDs designed to exploit the CD standards to make mechanisms fail, you'd probably say these guys were crooks. But if Sony does the exact same thing, it's the PC manufacturer's fault? Besides, Apple didn't design a one of their CD mechanisms, they are all third-party, and PC drives can be damaged too.

    And guess who makes a lot of those CD drives? That's right, it's Sony.... Not sure what's in the new systems, but my B&W G3 came with a Sony CD Rom, my TiBook has a Matshita drive though.