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BMG Stops Producing CDs

Posted by michael on from the retrograde-advances-in-music-technology dept.

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."

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  1. New BMG business model by Anarchofascist · · Score: 1, Redundant
    1. piss off consumers
    2. hit bottom
    3. blame folks
    4. ...
    5. PROFIT!

    [lamenessfilterlamenessfilterlamenessfilterlamen es sfilterlamenessfilterlamenessfilterlamenessfilterl amenessfilter]
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    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!
  2. Re:That's ok! by forged · · Score: 1, Redundant
    • 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!

    Bwahahaha!!! Ever heard of Microsoft vs. DOJ ?

    Sorry, couldn't resist.