In order for the burning software to know if a track was copyrighted would be if each and everytrack was digitally signed and encoded w/ its OWN serial # (or serial # range).
If it was the range, then the software would then need to have an active internet connection to verify the tracks authenticity. Which NO software can legally force you to have an active connection to use their product.
This kind of encoding would then make the tracks unplayable on normal (older and present day) cd players. Users would be forced to buy new cd players to play their music.
If they think I am going to buy a new CD player just to listen to their overpriced, engineered crap, they're in for a real surprise (because most people would side with me on this issue).
Which would cause those that resorted to this kind of drastic action to lose money.
So what would be their (the recording industry) option? Invest massive amounts of money into R&D to make it backwards compatible.
This leads to price hikes, many, many new lawsuits due to possible copyright infringement on encoding techniques, and even less compensation for the artists.
Now what do we have?
A bunch of tired, underpaid, pissed off artists.
What do they do?
Drop their record labels.
Distribute their music themselves on websites that they can build and get hosted for free.
Can't have that now, can we?
What do I think will happen then?
NOTHING is going to happen.
NOTHING will change.
Life will go on its merry way.
Listen to the first line in the above excerpt, here I'll repeat it, since you don't seem to have any intelligence:
A customer has no more right to buy an OS without media or chat or web integration
We DO have a right to buy an OS without any integration at all. The OS is simply a program to run on the kernel, which uses the bios (which is an OS in its own right), which controls the processor, which uses logic gates to channel electrons back and forth.
When I want to buy an OS, I want to buy ONLY the OS, not all the extra shit that gets thrown along with it.
And remember that the OS is simply a program, completely unrelated to the kernel, which is what actually does all the work.
An OS is simply a wrapper for that kernel, and the UI (you can have something other than a Graphic UI) is simply a candy-coated wrapper for the OS.
Now I know what you are thinking: "Another Linux freak." You are SO wrong. I happen to LIKE Windows 2000. It is not that bad of an OS.
It lets me enjoy features (use of my DSL modem, basic networking/hardware setup) on a 24/7 basis that are hard to configure in *nix environments.
If I want to have those accessories, then I will either:
a) buy them, or
b) download them.
I should not have to pay for products that I don't want and don't need, when all I want is to buy the OS.
(BTW, Linux distros may come w/ a million apps that I don't want or need, but then again, I don't have to buy/install them -- with Windows I DO.)
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In order for the burning software to know if a track was copyrighted would be if each and everytrack was digitally signed and encoded w/ its OWN serial # (or serial # range).
If it was the range, then the software would then need to have an active internet connection to verify the tracks authenticity. Which NO software can legally force you to have an active connection to use their product.
This kind of encoding would then make the tracks unplayable on normal (older and present day) cd players. Users would be forced to buy new cd players to play their music.
If they think I am going to buy a new CD player just to listen to their overpriced, engineered crap, they're in for a real surprise (because most people would side with me on this issue).
Which would cause those that resorted to this kind of drastic action to lose money.
So what would be their (the recording industry) option? Invest massive amounts of money into R&D to make it backwards compatible.
This leads to price hikes, many, many new lawsuits due to possible copyright infringement on encoding techniques, and even less compensation for the artists.
Now what do we have?
A bunch of tired, underpaid, pissed off artists.
What do they do?
Drop their record labels.
Distribute their music themselves on websites that they can build and get hosted for free.
Can't have that now, can we?
What do I think will happen then?
NOTHING is going to happen.
NOTHING will change.
Life will go on its merry way.
You are SOOO full of shit.
Listen to the first line in the above excerpt, here I'll repeat it, since you don't seem to have any intelligence:
A customer has no more right to buy an OS without media or chat or web integration
We DO have a right to buy an OS without any integration at all. The OS is simply a program to run on the kernel, which uses the bios (which is an OS in its own right), which controls the processor, which uses logic gates to channel electrons back and forth.
When I want to buy an OS, I want to buy ONLY the OS, not all the extra shit that gets thrown along with it.
And remember that the OS is simply a program, completely unrelated to the kernel, which is what actually does all the work. An OS is simply a wrapper for that kernel, and the UI (you can have something other than a Graphic UI) is simply a candy-coated wrapper for the OS.
Now I know what you are thinking: "Another Linux freak." You are SO wrong. I happen to LIKE Windows 2000. It is not that bad of an OS.
It lets me enjoy features (use of my DSL modem, basic networking/hardware setup) on a 24/7 basis that are hard to configure in *nix environments.
If I want to have those accessories , then I will either:
a) buy them, or
b) download them.
I should not have to pay for products that I don't want and don't need, when all I want is to buy the OS.
(BTW, Linux distros may come w/ a million apps that I don't want or need, but then again, I don't have to buy/install them -- with Windows I DO.)
All I ask for is choices.
Preach on brother.
If we knew what Micro$oft was up to when they first started, then maybe we wouldn't be in this mess that we are in now.