> Although I havent run across one yet, it's quite possible > that a copy protected disk would play in NONE of my > CDDA capable players. (Rio Volt, Sony MP3 Boombox, > DVD drive in my laptop) Is that any way to treat a paying > customer?
That's exactly what happened when I bought "Raozorblade Romance" by "Him" -- I couldn't listen to the CD because it wouldn't play in either the CD-Rom drive or the DVD-Rom driver. I had to dig out my old Philips CD-Player and record the CD in 1x mode -- which wasn't too bad, since I wanted to listen to it anyway. > Personally, I'd rather work toward stopping this "risky scheme" > than spend time and money to circumvent it. I always thought that demonstration of futility was also a way of stopping the stupid copy-protection schemes. After I had copied the disk, I returned it, since it couldn't be played by any of my CD-Players (no, I didn't, I gave it away, but I could have returned it, because a lot of people did have problems with that particular CD). I just really really hope, that the demonstration, that the CD can still be copied in conjunction with all the compatibility problems and the fact, that Philips is denying those companies' use of the CDDA logo will help prevent a copy-protected world. But to me, it is even more dangerous to have cryptographic devices within the CPU and Memory chips so that it might become impossible to write and compile software without a license to do so. Although people might think that that would be a great idea to stop viruses ... it might imply that Linux or your favorite MP3 encoder are considerer "untrusted" as well. Roy _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
