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."

Comments

Lovely.

[BeNJ-GoS]

What will i do with a printed image on the media side?!? stick my CD KEY's on it???

Suppose DRM only limited SPEED...

[dpbsmith]

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.

useful for *gasp* copy protection schemes?

[lophophore]

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.

Serial solution

[really_blurry]

Finally, a permanent place to write down the serial!

*hum* printed image you said...

[danalien]

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*.

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 :)*. Maybe someone will start a new opensource project *hehe*