On 15 May 2002 at 8:51, Miller, Jeffrey wrote:

> > 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 ;)

Precisely. All the "copy protection" does is inconvenience legitimate 
users.

Andy
Dawn Falcon

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