Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 06:13:05 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: making MP3s to fill my new HDD [LIB]
(Caution: Absolutely no Libretto content here... ) >Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:39:39 +0800 >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: making MP3s to fill my new HDD [LIB] > > > >Universal Music is attempting to write a new copy protection system into >their new CDs to prevent this raw data from being extracted and copied... >but they kinda fell on their face in the process:< < > > > > > >http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/supergeek/story/0,24330,2391656,00.html > > > >More to come I'm sure. >There will ALWAYS be a way of copying the audio. After all, if you wanted >to push it to the extreme, you could always play the CD in a half-decent CD >player, plug the digital out (or analogue out if they've protected digital >signals) into another device or a computer then just record. No way they >can stop that ... < Heh... yeah... that was the very first thing I thought when I read that article... No stoppin' tappin' into that digital stream with a fancy lure! >schemes like the Anti-VCR stuff on DVDs won't fix that for instance because >there is no intelligence in the recorder that can be 'fooled' that can't be >'turned off'.< I had a fairly knowledgeable friend who works with videocassettes tell me that some new (in the past many years) VCRs (don't know about DVD players) ARE in fact made with copy protection that is written into SOME videocassettes ... and so keep them from being copied. Know anything about this Raymond? Matt (... no... I can't ... ) _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
