It's my understanding that the CDs will work in regular CD player, but not computer CD players because the computer CD players are build to a different standard. (The regular CD players can ignore the idiosyncrasies that are present on the 'protected' CD and play the music, but the computer CD drivers cannot).
So, how long before CD drive makers market a CD drive that meets both standards (and will read the protected disk)?
And... if a CD driver maker does this, will that break the DCMA's rules?
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It's my understanding that the CDs will work in regular CD player, but not computer CD players because the computer CD players are build to a different standard. (The regular CD players can ignore the idiosyncrasies that are present on the 'protected' CD and play the music, but the computer CD drivers cannot).
So, how long before CD drive makers market a CD drive that meets both standards (and will read the protected disk)?
And... if a CD driver maker does this, will that break the DCMA's rules?
Doesn't Dan Gillmor look like the father from Different Strokes. Nice to see he's doing something useful after all these years.