on 14/5/02 4:24 pm, Andrew Crystall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 14 May 2002 at 7:02, The Fool wrote: > >> Celine Dion kills iMacs! An Apple dealer has 'confirmed' to the >> Campaign for Digital Rights (CDR) that attempting to play the latest >> Celine Dion CD in a new iMac will result in the machine having to be >> sent for repair. > > Bets on the protected "CD's" being blocked from being described as > CD's?
According to Apple, they already are: "Some audio discs use a copy protection technology that can prevent the disc from being read by a computer. This may also prevent the disc from being ejected. The audio discs are technically and legally not Compact Discs (CD format), and the CD logo has been removed from the disc. In the logo's former place is the printed message: "Will not play on PC/Mac" This appears both on the cover and on the disc. Inserting this disc in a computer may cause the system to stop responding. It might not be possible to eject the disc on computers without a manual eject hole. " Of course some nitwits might have released discs incorrectly bearing the CD logo before Philips (or whoever) got around to pointing it out to them. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk
