Jim Resinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> These potential limitations are part of the AudioLok Red
> copy-protection technology being developed by U.K.-based C-Dilla, a
> subsidiary of Macrovision whose anti-copy system currently prevents
> videotapes, DVDs, and pay-per-view movies from being recorded on VCRs.
> AudioLok blocks a PC's CD-ROM drive from playing music CDs, thereby
> foiling attempts to copy them or post them on the Internet.
Well, I'm a complete ignorant (technically speaking) but I've observed that
all these anti-copy systems work well until they're used on media
(videotapes) that won't go into a PC.
When it comes to the use of a PC, there will always be someone able to
create a bypass, or a crack or something else, that will make that
protection useless.
I've never found any copy protection technology used on CD Roms, for
example, really impossible to bypass. I've never found a CD Rom that, in the
end, was uncopiable.
Even the in-famous Macrovision protection on DVDs can be bypassed if you own
a Hollywood+ MPEG2 decoder, and we're talking about a $120 card, not a $5000
special-hyper-professional equipment.
So, in my opinion, we shouldn't worry too much on that. Maybe we should
worry about what we will do with all our MD equipment, though.
Luca
-> do we have to start a new boycott campaign?
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