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BMG Stops Producing CDs
An Anonymous Cow writes "The register has a new story about claims by Bertelsmann that they'll stop manufacturing uncrippled audio CDs. More can be found on Bertelsmann's own site (info by region, Europe only). Trouble playing it in your car stereo? According to BMG the error is your player's, and not their CD's. Quote: 'As far as we were advised, our copy protection is according to the Red Book Standard as well as all labelling on the cd.' In English: they don't even find it necessary to indicate on the CD cover that it's copy protected, nor do they think it advisable to listen to Philips' objections against using the CD logo on crippled discs, instead there's a label claiming that the CD is fully Red Book-compliant. It looks like this is a test case, because only all European CDs will be crippled."
BMG has no intention of "stopping production of CDs" - it simply intends to copy protect them all.
That's hardly the same as not producing them. The title of this article is very misleading.
Just because a program compiles, it doesn't mean it will work. It simply means it complies with the language specification and it's syntactially correct. The program itself might not work at all.
Yeah, just look at 95% of open source software...
"Apart from these 65,000 bugs Windows XP is the most stable operating system ever ... and no we're not going to patch them ..."
You a Brit? I was watching "A History of Britain" last night. I knew you guys were dicks, but I had no idea of the scale of assholeness you embody.
Stalin and Hitler were amateurs compared to the english.
No, no it isn't, shitbrain.