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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."
The correct term is "differently abled CD's"
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Don't read this!
No wonder they complain about decreasing CD sales if they stop shipping CDs...
Your scrambled ToC is no match for my superior patch cable and audio in!
There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
Is this the same group that I occasionaly get SPAM mail about buying 12 CDs for one penny (plus outrageous shipping charges)?
If so, then all of a sudden I suppose my e-mail program will now be unable to display their message (even though it's just a standard e-mail).
"All out books are completely normal and qualify for Library of Congress cataloging... we've simply removed the text as a precautionary measure to defeat the thieving scum of the world." says spokesman Yanash Smythe.
A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
Us consumers in the US can look to our government to stand up to this overt attack on our rights! Politicians in Washington aren't going to let these big record companies galavant about stomping on our rights!
After all, this is our culture that we're talking about. Surely the music of the time belongs to the people, right!? It's ours to share, the same as our wisdom and our stories, with each other freely. We all know that the progression of culture depends on the constant cycle of old becoming new, new artists seeking inspiration from those that went before.
I'm confident that the new government in Washington will honor these sacred things. We're all in good hands now!
Let's all have a glass of Victory Gin!
My Karma was at 49, then they switched to words. All that work for nothing!
Ford has no intention of "stopping production of cars" - it simply intends to make them with two wheels and instead steering wheel they use handlebars.
... felt tip marker sales soar through the roof
that Aerosmith's "just push play" is listed on the "known corrupt cd's" list on fat chuck's?
(link on register site, near the bottom)
Or borrowing a friend's music, or video, or book? Or supporting those bastions of evil, the "public" so-called libraries? Or recording a TV show or movie in some way that would let you "deep link" to the filler in between the commercials, instead of seeing it the way the copyright holder intended?
Don't you understand that going a day without buying a music disk is depriving artists in the music industry (CEOs, accountants, auditors, etc.) of the income they're entitled to?
Don't you know this so-called "Internet" is really
Stupid job ads, weird spam, occasional insight at
Dear Sir,
thankyou for clarifying the situation for me. My CD player cannot play the copy protected CD's and, due to poor labelling on CD's, I have had a lot of trouble knowing which CD's I shouldn't buy.
Now that I know all BMG produced CD's in Europe are to be copy-protected, it makes my purchasing easier; I'll stop buying CD's altogether. It's no hardship really, as the content on most of these CD's is not worth losing sleep over.
Yours sincerely
"BMG may be pretty soon recquired to put a special label on CDs, indicating that the CD is crippled."
Might I suggest a 3" x 3" bright red skull and crossbones?
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
1. Piss off customers.
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3. Profit.
Why don't they just punch themselves in the balls now and get the pain over with? Producing a music CD that won't play on most music CD playing equipment out in the wild is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Sell your stock in these companies, fols, 'cause they're doomed.
How often do you blow the members of the RIAA?