Indeed this is most excellent & interesting. I believe this also appeared on /. a few days ago.
--- Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like Phillips actually has a clue! Go Phillips! > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > 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. � > > -- > Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the > brave > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of > the free > We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! > http://www.freesklyarov.org > Geek for Hire > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 > Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://linux.nf > > Software evolves. It isn't designed. The only question > is how strictly you _control_ the evolution, and > how open you are to external sources of mutations. > - Linus > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
