copy protected cds, was:RE: [plug] ABC 7:30 Report - comments anyone?

[John Knight]

I don't have anything particularly new to add to this, although I certainly 
agree it's a biased report. An issue I'd like to raise with the recording 
industry is copy protected CDs, I have problems with buying an inferior 
product, and for anyone who's unfamiliar with copy protected CDs (very 
fortunate ppl I should think), they have inbuilt flaws built into them so 
that PC CD-ROM drives have problems reading them (yo ucan generally get away 
with it at 1x speed, but that's another issue).

These copy protected CDs can be played on Windows, and now nerwer ones can 
be played on Macs, by some kind of circumvention programme I assume. Yet I  
can't do the same thing under Linux, could we scram monopoly here? Obviously 
they're trying to cater for more than jsut Windows users as Macs are now 
supported, but what about any 'alternative' OSes? Are there any major 
articles covering this at the moment?

Cheers!
John

"...it was brilliant, there was three up against a thousand, and boy, did we 
give those three heaps!"

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