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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. first bagel post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    all too easy, sluts.

  2. boeiah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    wooooooo zatje kaffie

  3. fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fp?

  4. first? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    perhaps...

  5. fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fiftieth post!

  6. The title by Vilim · · Score: 0, Troll

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

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  7. Re:It has happened... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not to troll but...

    Microsoft didn't lose, you zealots are still quite a minority. The young people DO NOT think linux is cool, as they think kazaa is cool. The main stream still thinks of you all as socially inept geeks living in you're parents basement and has no intention of leaving microsoft any time soon. I almost pity you for the fact that you think Microsoft has lost, this only the begining. Their newest operating systems and software are going to be so much better than open source that they won't even be in the same league (although many people already believe this to be true). I'll admit that maybe in the past MS made some bad products, and you guys have been desperatly holding onto that line for years. Although it is sad, I guess this little community makes you guys happy, so maybe that's a good thing. You keep on tell yourself that you're better than me, with your open source, your no friends, and your (unattracive or non-existent) girlfriend.

  8. Pirates screw us again by ToasterTester · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  9. Stops producing Red Book CDs by drinkypoo · · Score: 1, Troll
    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.

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