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

[Shayne O'Neill]

Thanks to monkey-boy howard, if those dcma laws come through, this will be
ILLEGAL.

Infact even being in possesion of konquoror and kscd (or any variety that
doesnt respect/circumvent the system) will land you in line for criminal
charges.

Like drugs. but software.

Yay for law.

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Kirk Turner wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 15:56, John Knight wrote:
> > 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).
> >
> Are there different standards for the copy protection?
> I have Ben Harper's Diamonds on the Inside CD which has some sort of
> copy protection (its at home so I can't check who/what), however I can
> play it in kscd without a problem (on debian woody). What's more the
> copy protection was useless because using Konqueror I could just copy
> the .wav files directly from the CD without any loss of quality.
>
> Kirk
>