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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 CD's copy protection" (meaning the copy protection of the CD) would still be incorrect, as you don't apostrophise the genetive case of objects (only people).
Thus "The CD's copy protection" would only be a contraction of "The CD is/was copy protection".
Oh, and I've been known to delete apostrophised plurals from colleagues' word processor dictionaries where they've added it to stop the machine reminding them that writing about "2 PC's" is wrong. Dammit.
The only thing you can accurately describe as "Scotch" is a sticky tape made by 3M. And it's
Of course in the real future, we'll just use food replicators. "Computer, I'll have a cup of Earl Grey with lemon."
Sheesh... get it right... it's, "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot."
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