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> Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> > Kristin A. Ruhle wrote:
> >> I'd like to start a boycott
> >> of encrypted discs once they hit the stores.
> > I sympathize with you, {snip}
> > Look at what the industry did to the DVD, and
> > people still bought them. I will only buy a DVD player
> > when I can make it play DVDs from all places in the world
> The encryption on DVDs is much more than what is needed to prevent
> copying. Apparently they felt that they had to replicate the 'staged
> release' pattern that evolved when travel was predominantly be ship.
> With modern shipping there is no reason to preserve the 'staged
> release' and it is counterproductive to do so. (After all, once it is
> available anywhere in the world it is possible to make copies
> available in areas where there is not a legal copy available for
> purchase. Which brings up the question of whether it can be an
> infringement if you can't buy a legal copy....)
>
You're talking about video which is something else entirely (designed to
make stuff incompatible between nations.) I was talking about *audio CDs.*
Used to be you'd make a casseste copy for your car. Now you can make cd
copies, and with a cd changer plus CD-R stereo component you can create
your own "mix" cds. (until they put this encryption shit on them that
is.) The CD copy is much more perfect than the tape copy which is why they
think everybody with a home stereo is gonna become a pirate. Well jeez. I
used to get custom mix CDs from Musicmaker.com before they went out of
business! They were trying to be *legit* but the damn labels wouldn't
license anyhthing but old and obscure stuff people didn't want. OK, now
you can burn your own mix, so the music industry wants to treat you like a
criminal?
I'm hoping they'll set it up so you can make single but not multiple
copies (multiples would be piracy for p rofit). or put in a portalble
player but not upload. I agree (pretty much) that selling or giving it to
anhotehr person is stealing. Still...If I made my own "custom" CD with one
or two tracks on it from each of ten discs, and gave the disc to a friend
saying "hey try this sampler," well, to the RIAA that would be
piracy. But when a label does the same thing THEMSELVES, they call that
advertising! (Have they every heard of word of moutH? Or *ear*? People
want to know a cd is good before they buy it, and often want to here more
than the one track that gets on the radio.)
Kristin
Please, take the discussion of DVDs to another thread because audio /=
video....
