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Tom's Hardware Review of Yamaha CRW F1
Tremblay99 writes "Tom's Hardware has a review of the Yamaha CRW F1 CD burner. Not interested, you say? Well, it can burn images on the media side of a CD. While it's not the fastest burner around, it can do CD-RWs at 24x. Not bad at all."
What will i do with a printed image on the media side?!? stick my CD KEY's on it???
Looks like this may extend the useful life of CDRs! Sounds all good to me.... Even though DVD writables are coming down in price they still cant match CDRs for compatibilty (as they are still arguing over the format for DVDs) and price.
I realize that neither side of the controversy is interested in a moderate or centrist view... but it does seem to me that IF you had digital restrictions management that allowed bit-for-bit digital copies and imposed no restrictions at all on what you could copy... but restricted copying SPEED to about 2X realtime... you'd have something very reasonable.
(The point is to duplicate the sort of porous protection copyrights have always had, in which fair-use and casual personal copying is easy, but large-scale commercial piracy is difficult--and is based, not on technical mechanisms, but on the relationship between the value of the unauthorized copies and the cost and practicality of enforcement).
Yes, yes, yes, I know, the DRM opponents (the side I'm on, mostly. I'm an EFF member, BTW. Are you?) would never trust that a DRM scheme, once in place, would ever be limited to ANYTHING reasonable. And I can think of various ways of evading the intent of the speed restriction.
Just a thought.
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I can imagine some creative vendor using this technology to burn bar codes (or other non-standard data) of crypt keys on CDs. The software would then verify the key data existed and allow the protected content to be accessed.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
Finally, a permanent place to write down the serial!
> You've gotta sin to get saved.
Double sided DVDs are great, sure, but consider quantity. How many DVDs does the average person have compared to the number of CDRs? With spindles of 50 selling for as low as $18, these things are as prolific as black ants at a barbecue. Personally, I've only got one spindle on the go (only had my burner for a few short months) and a small spattering of CD-RWs for backups, but I know people who have significantly less HDD space than I do (or more, but are more media-happy) who have everything conceivable on CD. Audio CDs, MP3 CDs, movies, games, files of varying sorts ...
Long story short - collections of hundreds of generic CDR discs require some sort of organization. Since spindles don't come with jewel cases (duh!) you need a label, even if it's just with a Sharpie.
So with double-sided discs, yeah, I can write twice the data, but how on Earth am I ever going to find it again? The eyestrain of reading labels written on the little bit of media that surrounds the hole would kill me (being the fine looking four-eyes that I am).
Nope. Can't see them becoming mainstream unless we can come up with a label that's legible, long-lasting, and that standard CD-ROM lasers can penetrate.
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It just accured to me that these "printed images" on the rest of the free space could be used to copyprotect a cd; (now avalible ) for us plain-users *that is*.
:)*. Maybe someone will start a new opensource project *hehe*
The images gets burned outside the TOC, so when you read (copy) the cd all other info outside the TOC gets left out.
Add a little "protection app" to the cd, make the cd-rom[s] execute the app. Where the apps look "in a certian place" for the right bit burnt in the right places. [Don't forget that you most likely have to encode the data of the cd; so, that only the little app that gets executed upon insertion can read&decode the contet (only IF! it finds the right bits&bytes on the cd)].
And Voul'a a copy protected cd.
*hum* upon more thought, You could do this with a regular cdburner too *you just need someone (or yourself) to code the right app for this certian scheme
I don't claim I know more than I know, and if you know you know more than I know, then by all means, let me know.