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."

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The title

[Vilim]

Kind of threw me off there "BMG Stops Producing CDs" hmm so where is all htier money going to come from :p

Pirates screw us again

[ToasterTester]

Yes, a few people are making legit' copies but the majority making copies are making illegal copies and swapping them. Because of that we now have to deal with sucky copy protection schemes. Same illegal copying brought about the extra cost for blank media. So scream and pout all you want about the companies, but it's your theft that casued them to do it and we ALL are having to pay.

Stops producing Red Book CDs

[drinkypoo]

They're not stopping producing CDs. They are still Compact Discs. They are not making Red Book compliant CDs.

You would think that as many times as the /. editors have fucked this up they'd figure out how to get it right eventually.

It's not news for nerds; it's reactionary knee-jerking for nerds.