> From: Miller, Jeffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: William T Goodall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > on 14/5/02 11:51 pm, Andrew Crystall at > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On 14 May 2002 at 15:36, Jon Gabriel wrote: > > > > > >> The Star Wars soundtrack has been available on the > > >> alt.binaries.sounds.mp3s newsgroup for at least a month. > > Somehow I > > >> doubt any copy-protection schemes the companies can come > > up with will > > >> prevent a truly determined person from ripping them. > > > > > > If it can be heard, it can be recorded. > > > > Well, that's true of course. The problem is if someone wants > > to make a lossless digital copy rather than resample the > > output from the DAC. > > easy - play it on a CD player with a digital out and route that into a > DAT with digital inputs. The remainder of the process is left as an > exercise for the reader ;) Wrong. The CD players that would put out a digital signal are the same ones that wont play these corrupted discs, precisely because the digital information on the disc is corrupted.
