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Special Report: Copy-Protected CDs - http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=15990
"How the labels are trying to stop you." [Rolling Stone] |
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Register: CD Anti-piracy System Can Nuke Hi-fi Kit - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/03/cd_antipiracy_system_can_nuke/
"Sony's Music Entertainment division has been testing an anti-piracy technology that at best renders illegally copied CDs unlistenable and at worse blows listeners' speakers." By Tony Smith. |
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Register: Old Code Defeats New CD Anti-ripping Technologies - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/10/old_code_defeats_new_cd/
"Macrovision's SafeAudio and Midbar's Cactus - both new technologies designed to prevent CDs from being copied successfully - may have been defeated by software released over two years ago." By Tony Smith. |
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BMG Backs Down Over Copy-Protected CD - http://slashdot.org/yro/01/11/18/0457230.shtml
Virgin Megastores has responded to a complaint from one of their customers and said that BMG has set up a helpline to allow people who bought the corrupt version, to exchange it for a real one. Virgin and HMV will also be bringing in new stock of uncorrupted CDs. [Slashdot] |
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Lawsuit Challenges Copy-Protected CDs - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-936527.html
"The five major record companies have been hit with a class-action lawsuit charging that new CDs designed to thwart Napster-style piracy are defective and should either be barred from sale or carry warning labels." [Reuters] |
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Philips Burning on Protection - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/02/50101
"Officials for Netherlands-based Philips, which licenses the compact disc logo for both discs and players, went on a tirade against the recording industry for shipping discs with deliberate errors burned into them." By Paul Boutin. [Wired] |
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CNet: Protected CDs Quietly Slip into Stores - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-270164.html
"Consumers in ordinary record stores are unwittingly buying CDs that include technology designed to discourage the making of digital copies." |
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BMG to Replace Anti-rip Natalie Imbruglia CDs - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/19/bmg_to_replace_antirip_natalie/
"Bertelsmann Music Group has had to back down on plans to force anti-rip technologies on British CD buyers." By Tony Smith. [Register] |
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'No More Music CDs Without Copy Protection,' Claims BMG Unit - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/06/no_more_music_cds_without/
"BMG is at it again, this time apparently set on applying copy protection to all its music products." By John Lettice. [Register] |
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Register: UK Campaigners Call for Anti 'Anti-rip' CD Day of Action - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/10/04/uk_campaigners_call_for_anti/
"Campaigners will take to the streets of Britain this Saturday (6 October) in a bid to raise public awareness of the music industry's attempts to prevent listeners from copying CDs or playing discs on PCs." By Tony Smith. |
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The Register - Congressman Assails CD Copy Protection - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/08/congressman_assails_cd_copy_protection/
Copy protection tracks implanted in CDs are a violation of the right to fair use of purchased music, writes a US Representative to recording industry lobbyists. |
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The Age - Copy Protected CDs: Artists Can Be the Losers - http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/03/1048962867084.html
Article pointing out that music companies which use copy protection may be denying the artists under contract to them legitimate play time on radio stations. |
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Register: US Record Label Sued over Anti-rip CD Technology - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/11/us_record_label_sued_over/
"An unnamed Californian woman has sued US country music record label Fahrenheit Entertainment for allegedly misleading its customers by shipping CDs protected with an anti-rip mechanism." By Tony Smith. |
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Consumer Claims Victory in CD Lawsuit - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-843114.html
"Makers of a recording by country-pop singer Charley Pride have agreed to stop tracking most listener habits and to warn consumers that the CD is not compatible with MP3 and other players, according to attorneys for a woman who sued the companies." By Lisa Bowman. [CNet] |
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Register: Anti-rip CD System Bypassed - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/01/antirip_cd_system_bypassed/
"Macrovision's SafeAudio technology, designed to prevent PC-owning music fans from ripping CD tracks onto their hard drives, has been bypassed." By Tony Smith. |
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Slashdot: BMG's New Copy-Protected Audio CDs - http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/25/116237.shtml
"BMG-Entertainment started selling audio-CDs using the Cactus Data Shield, a copy-protection system developed by Midbar and Sonopress which makes it impossible to grab the music from the CD and to listen to it using 'an old CD-Player' or a CD-ROM-drive." News and reader comments. |
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New Scientist: New CD Anti-Piracy System Could Damage Loudspeakers - http://www.rense.com/general12/news.htm
"It is called the Cactus Data Shield, and it is designed to add noisy garbage to all copied CDs. The trouble is, it could also damage the hi-fi and loudspeakers of people who play pirated CDs." |
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kuro5hin: New Scientist: SafeDisc Can Cause Damage to Speakers - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/1/17156/40276
"New Scientist reports that the new anti-piracy feature on audio CDs, has the potential to damage loudspeakers by introducing square waves into the amplified signal." News and reader comments. |
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Cactus CD Copy Protection is Launched This Month - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/8/72812/62445
"To thwart file swappers, Universal Music Group executives have said they want to protect a large proportion of their new releases as early as midyear." News and reader discussion. [kuro5hin] |
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Post-it Notes vs. Copy-Inhibited CDs - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/14/0040215
News about Celine Dion CDs killing iMacs and black markers or sticky notes defeating some "copy-protection" schemes. Reader discussion. [Slashdot] |
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CD Technology Stops Copies, But It Starts a Controversy - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/technology/01PROT.html
"The recording industry has begun selling music CD's designed to make it impossible for people to copy music to their computers, trade songs over the Internet or transfer them to portable MP3 players." By Amy Harmon. [New York Times] |
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Consumers in Crossfire of Labels' War on Piracy - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0304/p18s01-wmcn.html
"The downside of copy-protected music CDs? Some won't play when consumers get them home." By Aaron Pressman. [Christian Science Monitor] |
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Big Five Labels Sued Over Copy-Protected CDs - http://www.itworld.com/Man/2683/020619cdcopy/
"Heightening the tension surrounding the music industry's efforts to guard its content in the digital realm, the five major record labels were hit with a class action lawsuit last week for producing and distributing CDs with copyright protection controls." By Scarlet Pruitt. [IDG] |
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CD Freaks: SafeAudio Explained and Should We Fear It? - http://www.cdfreaks.com/reviews/SafeAudio-explained-and-should-we-fear-it-
How Macrovision's SafeAudio works and how to bypass it. |
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New Scientist: NSync CD is Copy Protection "Experiment" - http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991367
"The music industry is now testing different copy protection systems on mass market chart CDs, with copies of NSync's Celebrity on the Zomba label being sold in at least three different versions." |
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New Scientist: Anti-piracy CD System Raises Distortion Fear - http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999998
"The first CD title has already sold 100,000 copies, but it is causing concern among audio experts because they fear that the music may be audibly distorted." |
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New Scientist Correction - http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991105
Retraction of article saying Cactus DataShield could damage speakers. "Midbar... has asked us to make clear that there is nothing in its technology on the market, past, current or future, that could, or would, be potentially damaging to equipment." |
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AOL Seeks Manager for Anti-Copying Push - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-858181.html
"AOL Time Warner is beginning efforts to add copy protection to CDs, underscoring the company's desire to limit unsanctioned digital distribution of its musical works." By Jim Hu. [CNet] |
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Metafilter - http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/9152
Community weblog discussing protected and corrupted audio cd's. |
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Copy Protection On CDs Is 'Worthless' - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/2144242
Reader comments on New Scientist article. [Slashdot] |
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Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/03/226233
"Celine Dion's latest CD will not play in computer drives. In fact: 'Should the consumer try to play Dion's CD on a PC or Macintosh, the computer likely will crash.'" News and reader discussion. [Slashdot] |
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Copy Protection on CDs is 'Worthless' - http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993020
"The technology built into some CDs to stop people copying them is futile, according to a computer scientist who has put today's antipiracy systems under the microscope." By Barry Fox. [New Scientist] |
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Selling the Benefits - http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?681
"If DVD-A and/or SACD are to supplant CD, not only do their features have to be transformed into benefits, but the benefits consumers currently enjoy with CD need to be preserved." By John Atkinson. [Stereophile] |
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Record Labels Beware - http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1482
Study suggests that, if the music industry wants to experiment with selling copy-protected CDs, "there [must] be mandatory warning labels on the CDs or the industry risks seriously alienating consumers." By Jon Iverson. [Stereophile] |
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Philips: Don't Mess with the CD! - http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1247
"According to Philips, recent attempts to add playback restriction technology to new releases is not just a bad idea: Because the Red Book recipe has been altered, the discs no longer qualify as CDs and should be labeled clearly." By Jon Iverson. [Stereophile] |