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>> HARD NEWS <<
smoothed, criminal
MICHAEL JACKSON's new single seems likely to "Rock Your
World" in more ways than one, as promotional copies sent out
by Sony appear to be the first examples spotted "in the
wild" of audio CDs which won't play in PC CD-ROM drives.
"When loaded into the CD drive, the disc spun continuously
as though the drive was trying to access the TOC of a blank
or corrupted CDR", reports our correspondent, a producer and
sound engineer, adding: "None of our stand-alone
professional or domestic CD players had a problem with it".
Of course, this is exactly what Macrovision's SafeAudio (or
similar copy-protection systems) are intended to do: insert
"bad" error-correction codes, which audio CD players can
interpolate around, but higher-precision CD-ROM drives
don't, effectively preventing you from ripping (or listening
to) any tracks on your PC. The UK's Campaign for Digital
Rights (formerly the "Free Dmitry Sklyarov" guys) are still
planning a leafleting campaign alerting shoppers to this
ingenious reduction of their music's self-healing properties
(making CDs more susceptible to scratches or other damage) -
though perhaps an "explicit lyrics"-style labelling system
wouldn't go amiss either, for those of us who just don't own
a non-CD-ROM CD player.
http://uazu.net/cd/
- like anyone with a PC is still buying CDs anyway
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/08/encrypt.html
- apparently not as good as Jacko's earlier, audible work
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