I thought you might be interested in this. It bodes ill for all of us.
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COPY-PROOF CDs
C-Dilla, recently acquired by Macrovision, is developing technology
that is said to prevent a computer's CD-ROM drive from playing music
CDs, making it impossible to copy them with a CD-R drive or post them
on the Internet. Slated for introduction next year, the AudioLok
system is said to also prohibit copies from being made in consumer CD
recorders -- and even to prevent a digital signal from being passed
through a player's digital outputs.
The system works by adding false codes to a music CD so that it looks
like a CD-ROM to a computer The codes are ignored by CD players, but
the discs appear corrupt and unreadable on CD-ROM drives.
So although the recording industry's Secure Digital Music Initiative
(SDMI) has reached the reluctant conclusion (albeit with the help of
court decisions) that consumers should be allowed to copy digital
content onto storage media, your right to do so isn't yet fully
secure.
--Brian C. Fenton. "Random Play." STEREO REVIEW'S SOUND & VISION.
September 1999. p. 16
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