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Sony Adds New Copyright Method to CDs in 2003

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pay-to-play-and-play-again dept.

Natoi writes "Sony is leaving Mac and **nix users out in the cold with their new copyright method called Label Gate CD copyright system. You'd have to be running Windows and use a Sony developed proprietary software to listen to CD's published by Sony starting next year." This seems a little extreme to me, since sitting at the computer just to listen to music is stupid. What about car stereos and high-fidelity CD players?

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  1. Wait a second here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're saying that I cannot listen to a CD in a CD player now? I have to have a PC with Windows in order to listen to a CD (and I can't play it in a CD player)? So, in order to listen to the music I buy, I have to also buy a PC and install Sony's software? I can't listen to this in my car or on my hifi? I have to use my PC?

    Too bad that's not what the article says in any way, shape, or form.

    This is the standard dual-format shuck and jive broken redbook CD format that we've seen before, time and time again. One session is audio, the other is data. Your PC will read the data session and it will install a nice DRM player and some spyware for good measure and your hifi CD transports and other redbook players will see only the audio track.

    This solves nothing for Sony and poses no threat to your ability to make MP3s. I believe this copy protection system was previously foiled with a black magic-marker.