Michaelwagner Wrote: > I haven't bought a new album in a while, I shop mostly at beatgoeson.com > (a little canadian chain for used CD sales), but I thought DRM was still > the exception rather than the rule in actual bought in the store CDs.
Its use has greatly expanded. This logo first appeared on CDs in 2005: http://www.ifpi.org/site-content/images/copy-control-1.gif Its use has expanded quite dramatically. It is on nearly every major release now and is moving into less well-known artists and releases. The industry may be moving to a "secure chain" arrangement - we're starting to see this with HDMI. Playback will only be possible with "secured" devices that pass their output to other "secured" devices. Such devices have hardware locks that prevent copying and prevent interception of the data stream by an intermediate device. There's still "the analog hole" - if you can hear it, you can record it - possibly straight off the speaker output or via a microphone pointed at the speakers! Amazingly, even this may be plugged. Digitally-projected movies have an optical code in them that certain new video cameras will read and prevent recording. Audio could be treated the same way. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23869 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
