These things that look like audio CDs just have a playback protection, but no real copyright protection. A copyright protection would a) prevent copying and b) not affect playback.
In countries where you are still allowed to make personal copies of your own CDs, you can use tools to make playback enabled copies of these CDs that work on your car stereo or portable CD player.
These tools, e.g. Plextor's PlexTools, come with the burner and are a legal way to make any CD playable everywhere.
I dont think so. Deutsche Telekom state in their webpage that you can pay anonymous. If you can buy this card at every kiosk, wouldnt it be a little complicated to demand the ID card from everyone? With 20 people queueing behind?
And I have to correct myself: there is no chip on this card (I assumed that because German cardphones use chips), its just working with a toll-free access number like most prepaid calling cards.
Sorry, you are wrong here. Were talking about prepaid cards you can buy anonymously all across Germany! They are as anonymous as phone cards (btw, they also have a chip for cardphones).
So these prepaid cards are actually a way to stay anonymous, as opposed to credit cards, which can be tracked.
I wouldnt call IBM reliable. Two of my IBM harddisks died, an EIDE (fast growing number of bad sectors after one year) and an UW-SCSI drive (stood still during operation after half a year). My friends UW-SCSI IBM drive had bad sectors after one year.
However, IBM harddisks are cheap, and certainly they are fast. Reliability is the price you have to pay.
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These things that look like audio CDs just have a playback protection, but no real copyright protection. A copyright protection would a) prevent copying and b) not affect playback.
In countries where you are still allowed to make personal copies of your own CDs, you can use tools to make playback enabled copies of these CDs that work on your car stereo or portable CD player.
These tools, e.g. Plextor's PlexTools, come with the burner and are a legal way to make any CD playable everywhere.
And I have to correct myself: there is no chip on this card (I assumed that because German cardphones use chips), its just working with a toll-free access number like most prepaid calling cards.
So these prepaid cards are actually a way to stay anonymous, as opposed to credit cards, which can be tracked.
However, IBM harddisks are cheap, and certainly they are fast. Reliability is the price you have to pay.