Looks like Phillips actually has a clue! Go Phillips!
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Subject: [fsl-discuss] Standards: Register: Phillips moves to put 'poison' label on
protected audio CDs
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:13:05 -0800
From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: FSL Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2002.01.18: Register: Phillips moves to put 'poison' label on protected
audio CDs
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23736.html
By John Lettice
Posted: 18/01/2002 at 13:19 GMT
Netherlands giant Philips Electronics has lobbed a grenade into the
audio copy protection arena by insisting that that CDs including
anti-copying technology should bear what is effectively a plague
warning. They should in Philips' view clearly inform users that they
are copy-protected, and they shouldn't use the "Compact Disc" logo
because they are not, in Philips' considered view, proper compact
discs at all.
[...]
Meanwhile, the second barrel of the Philips shotgun is CD burning.
In a Reuters interview Gerry Wirtz, general manager of Philips'
copyright office, said that the company would be building CD burners
that can read and burn copy protected CDs. He argues that the
protection system is not a protection system as such, but simply a
mechanism for stopping the playback of music. This interesting claim
allows him to contend that the protection systems are not covered by
the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and lays the ground for the
mother of all sue-fests with the number of large and rich companies
who are most certainly not going to agree with him. Tin hats all
round. ®
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