Aileen Chen asked,
| When does the new SCMS (sp?) standard kick in for the US? I mean, I haven't
| really bought any CD's for a long long time so I'm kind of in the dark here.
There isn't a new SCMS standard: commercial CDs are still supposed to allow
one generation of digital copying. But more and more have been appearing in
Europe that are set to prohibit even that one generation, and I wouldn't be
surprised to see them here before long. Apparently some manufacturers are
interpreting the SCMS rules to mean that commercial CDs may permit a maximum
of one generation of digital copying but don't have to allow any at all.
So far every CD I own whose SCMS status I've checked has been penultimate or
unlimited (except for two that had some unlimited tracks and some penultimate
tracks).
SCMS-regression tricks, such as Martin Borus's two-pass method and Ingemar
Lindqvist's keep-a-cloning-master-on-hand variant, still depend on the
material's being digitally copyable in the first place; what they accomplish
is to produce a copyable copy instead of an uncopyable copy when the source
is SCMS-penultimate, and they depend on first making an uncopyable copy and
then changing its SCMS bits. If the source is already SCMS-final, regression
can't work because you can't make a digital copy from it in the first place,
and you need another way to circumvent SCMS, such as a stripper.
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