> The recordings can be downloaded into MP3 or other music file
> formats, but only after an individual purchases the CD, which
> has a list price of $16.98, and registers that copy.
Are they saying that the CD *and* mp3 are encrypted? Otherwise, after
registering the CD and burning mp3s, what is to keep the mp3s from being
freely traded?
Without devulging my music-copyright opinion, I can't imagine how the record
industry will ever make something that is completely copy-proof. At the
very worst(best), if the digital media does achieve a secure state, the
analog product could be captured to WAV/mp3.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blank Frank
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 16:22
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Label releases copy-protected CD
>
>
>
> Tuesday May 15 10:00 AM EDT
>
> Label releases copy-protected CD with Pride
>
> By Gwendolyn Mariano CNET News.com
>
> As teenagers slip through Napster (news - web sites)'s
> increasingly dense
> filters for the latest pop craze, veteran country music singer
> Charley Pride is
> trying to sell a new method of thwarting file traders:
> copy-protected CDs.
>
> Nashville, Tenn.-based Music City Records is
> betting
> that the technology protecting "A Tribute to
> Jim
> Reeves," to be released Tuesday, will keep the
> songs
> from appearing on Napster and alternative free
> file-swapping services.
>
> In March, a federal court order required
> Napster to
> block access to certain files identified by
> the record
> industry as copyrighted works. The company has
> been
> covering its service with complex filters, but
> record
> labels, musicians and publishers are still wary of the Net and
> its ability to
> open doors to free music.
>
> As a result, the music, publishing and film industries are
> working with digital
> rights management companies to thwart would-be pirates.
> Although record
> labels and film studios have had some success in courts, the
> technological
> side has proven more difficult. Last year, BMG Germany's push
> to secure CDs
> using technology from Israeli security company Midbar failed.
> BMG
> abandoned its project after complaints piled up from customers
> who said their
> players could not read the discs.
>
> On Pride's new album, encryption technology by Phoenix-based
> SunnComm
> prevents people from copying the CD's music on a burner or
> downloading it
> onto Napster in a digital form, according to Music City
> Records. The
> recordings can be downloaded into MP3 or other music file
> formats, but only
> after an individual purchases the CD, which has a list price of
> $16.98, and
> registers that copy.
>
> Bob Heatherly, chief executive of Music City Records is
> confident that the CD
> will prevent people from breaking the encryption code. The
> label, which was
> founded in January, decided to release copy-protected CDs in
> response to
> Napster's controversial service, which does not compensate
> artists. Heatherly
> added that when he negotiated with Pride to sign him on his
> label, the singer
> wanted to ensure that his music was protected.
>
> "It's the first release on Music City Records, so it's kind of
> a landmark for me
> and Charley," Heatherly said. "It looked like the labels were
> laying back to
> see what the courts do, and I can't believe the courts are
> continuing to let
> Napster run the service...(so) it was a perfect time to do it."
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20010515/tc/label_releases_copy-pr
otected_cd_with_pride_1.html
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