Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD Burning

Decaffeinated Jedi writes "News.com reports that the recording industry is currently testing technology that would limit the number of times that a given CD (or copies of that CD) could be burned. The idea is to let consumers 'make a limited number of copies of their music -- enough for a car, a vacation home and a friend, for example -- without allowing for uncontrolled duplication.' Currently, Macrovision and SunnComm International are developing competing versions of such 'secure burning' technology, with BMG Music Group already testing the latter company's software."

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More RIAA Copy Protection Stupidity

[rudy_wayne]

Sorry guys.

cd player output --> sound card input --> .wav file.

Thanks for playing. Try Again.

Re:Uh...

[ThrasherTT]

They're mostly stealing from record company executives. I don't personally think it's ok to steal music from anyone, and I think any artist who gives up 90% of their earnings to some record company exec deserves to get screwed, but really it isn't the downloaders who are exhibiting 'pirate'-like behavior

And here we have the typical pirate mindset rebuttal. Somehow that 10% to the artist magically disappears. And somehow the fact that the artists sign contracts... wait for it... WITHOUT GUNS TO THEIR HEADS... makes them "ripe for the screwing," be it by the record execs, or pirates, or both.

Feel free to copy and distribute free music, even donate to the artists! But when it comes to pirating music, that is, copying it for distribution without the copyright holder's permission, you'd rather give the artists a 10% dicking just to stick it to the RIAA? And if you are going to claim that donating to RIAA-signed artists in order to ease the conscience of the pirate is actually occuring, let's see some examples.