Hello, Roy Rio,
At 2002-06-30, 21:08:00 you wrote:
>I always thought that demonstration of futility was also a way of stopping
>the stupid copy-protection schemes.
Yes it is another way. I just perfer the boycott to the two or three ineveitable
rounds of "foolproof protection" immediately followed by a crack of the "foolproof
protection".
Phillips has even threatened (according to Reuters) to create drives that ignore the
purposeful corruption and can rip from copy-protected disks.
>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.
I really really hope with you. :)
>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.
Yes, most people are concerned about this. Look at how fast the seemingly innocent
PIII "serial number" thing by Intel got slammed! Consumers need to stay informed and
vigilant where privacy and fair use issues are involved. These big companies want to
know all and see all so they can "own all".
Thank goodness Lame is ISO source free, LGPL code! Sometimes the best things in life
ARE free. :)
Chris
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