Corrupted Audio CDs Music Freedom Intellectual Property Issues

"NSync's new CD will be released in a least 3 different versions (with different copy protection techniques)." News and reader comments.

• Philips Burning on Protection - "Officials for Netherlands-based Philips, which licenses the compact corrupted audio cds disc logo for both discs and players, went corrupted audio cds on a tirade against the recording industry for corrupted audio cds shipping discs with deliberate errors burned into them." corrupted audio cds By Paul Boutin. [Wired]
• Register: UK Campaigners Call for Anti 'Anti-rip' CD Day of Action - "Campaigners will take to the streets of Britain this Saturday music freedom (6 October) in a bid to raise public awareness of music freedom the music industry\\'s attempts to prevent listeners from copying CDs music freedom or playing discs on PCs." By Tony Smith.
• Wired: Copy-Protected CDs Taken Back - "[BMG Germany] was faced with a backlash from consumers complaining corrupted audio cds that some of the copy-protected CDs were unplayable."
• Metafilter - Community weblog discussing protected and corrupted audio CDs.
• Register: Old Code Defeats New CD Anti-ripping Technologies - "Macrovision\\'s SafeAudio and Midbar\\'s Cactus - both new corrupted audio cds technologies designed to prevent CDs from being copied corrupted audio cds successfully - may have been defeated by software corrupted audio cds released over two years ago." By Tony Smith.
• Register: US Record Label Sued over Anti-rip CD Technology - "An unnamed Californian woman has sued US country intellectual property music record label Fahrenheit Entertainment for allegedly misleading intellectual property its customers by shipping CDs protected with an intellectual property anti-rip mechanism." By Tony Smith.
• Hey, Big Five - Copyright This! - "A class action lawsuit has been filed against music freedom the corrupted audio cds five major record labels for manufacturing and music freedom distributing defective corrupted audio cds or dysfunctional compact discs." News and music freedom reader discussion. [Plastic]
• New Scientist: New CD Anti-Piracy System Could Damage Loudspeakers - "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."
• CNet: Protected CDs Quietly Slip into Stores - "Consumers in ordinary record stores are unwittingly buying CDs that intellectual property include technology designed to discourage the making of digital copies."
• Slashdot: NSync Copy Protected CD - "NSync\\'s new CD will be released in a intellectual property least intellectual property 3 different versions (with different copy protection intellectual property techniques)." News intellectual property and reader comments.
• Consumers in Crossfire of Labels' War on Piracy - "The downside of copy-protected music CDs? Some won\\'t play when intellectual property consumers get them home." By Aaron Pressman. [Christian Science Monitor]
• More Copy Protected CDs? - Fat Chuck\\'s maintains a list of corrupt CDs. music freedom Reader intellectual property comments and discussion. [Slashdot]
• New Scientist: Anti-piracy CD System Raises Distortion Fear - "The first CD title has already sold 100,000 music freedom copies, intellectual property but it is causing concern among audio music freedom experts because intellectual property they fear that the music may music freedom be audibly distorted."
• BMG Backs Down Over Copy-Protected CD - Virgin Megastores has responded to a complaint from one of intellectual property their customers and said that BMG has set up a intellectual property helpline to allow people who bought the corrupt version, to intellectual property exchange it for a real one. Virgin and HMV will intellectual property also be bringing in new stock of uncorrup
• The Register - 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.
• AOL Seeks Manager for Anti-Copying Push - "AOL Time Warner is beginning efforts to add intellectual property copy protection to CDs, underscoring the company\\'s desire intellectual property to limit unsanctioned digital distribution of its musical intellectual property works." By Jim Hu. [CNet]
• Selling the Benefits - "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]
• The Age - Copy Protected CDs: Artists Can Be the Losers - Article pointing out that music companies which use copy protection music freedom may be denying the artists under contract to them legitimate music freedom play time on radio stations.
• Copy-Protected CDs a Nightmare for BMG Germany - "Blaming a falloff in CD sales on the popularity of corrupted audio cds CD burners, BMG Germany recently issued approximately 100,000 copy-protected discs corrupted audio cds in an attempt to thwart the problem--and had to take corrupted audio cds a substantial portion of them back because consumers said the
• Register: Anti-rip 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.
• Slashdot -Stations Can't Play Crippled Music Disks - Reader comments on The Age article reporting that some radio intellectual property stations are unable to play copy-protected CDs.
• Consumer Claims Victory in CD Lawsuit - "Makers of a recording by country-pop singer Charley music freedom Pride music freedom have agreed to stop tracking most listener music freedom habits and music freedom to warn consumers that the CD music freedom is not compatible music freedom with MP3 and other players, music freedom according to attorneys for music freedom a woman who sued music freedom the companies.&qu
• kuro5hin: New Scientist: SafeDisc Can Cause Damage to Speakers - "New Scientist reports that the new anti-piracy feature intellectual property on corrupted audio cds audio CDs, has the potential to damage intellectual property loudspeakers by corrupted audio cds introducing square waves into the amplified intellectual property signal." News and corrupted audio cds reader comments.
• 'No More Music CDs Without Copy Protection,' Claims BMG Unit - "BMG is at it again, this time apparently set on applying copy protection to all its music products." By John Lettice. [Register]
• Cactus CD Copy Protection is Launched This Month - "To thwart file swappers, Universal Music Group executives corrupted audio cds have said they want to protect a large corrupted audio cds proportion of their new releases as early as corrupted audio cds midyear." News and reader discussion. [kuro5hin]
• Post-it Notes vs. Copy-Inhibited CDs - News about Celine Dion CDs killing iMacs and intellectual property black music freedom markers or sticky notes defeating some "copy-protection" intellectual property schemes. Reader music freedom discussion. [Slashdot]
• Register: CD Anti-piracy System Can Nuke Hi-fi Kit - "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.
• New Scientist: NSync CD is Copy Protection "Experiment" - "The music industry is now testing different copy protection systems corrupted audio cds on mass market chart CDs, with copies of NSync\\'s Celebrity corrupted audio cds on the Zomba label being sold in at least three corrupted audio cds different versions."
• CD Freaks: SafeAudio Explained and Should We Fear It? - How Macrovision\'s SafeAudio works and how to bypass it.
• Register: 'Hi-fi Nuking' CD Technology Safe Claims Developer - Skeptical report on New Scientist\\'s retraction of its intellectual property warning that Cactus could damage speakers playing copied intellectual property CDs. By Tony Smith.
• Copy Protection on CDs is 'Worthless' - "The technology built into some CDs to stop intellectual property people music freedom copying them is futile, according to a intellectual property computer scientist music freedom who has put today\\'s antipiracy systems intellectual property under the microscope." music freedom By Barry Fox. [New Scientist]
• BMG Stops Producing CDs - "The Register has a new story about claims corrupted audio cds by Bertelsmann that they\\'ll stop manufacturing uncrippled audio corrupted audio cds CDs." News and reader comments. [Slashdot]
• Customers Put Kibosh on Anti-Copy CD - "Complaints about anti-copying technology on Natalie Imbruglia\\'s latest intellectual property CD force her record label to issue replacements intellectual property for angry consumers." By John Borland. [CNet]
• Register: Music Biz Patents Anti-rip Encryption Technology - "Details of the method appear in a patent corrupted audio cds music freedom filed by IFPI. The patent, GB2357165, centres on corrupted audio cds music freedom encrypting the track time codes stamped onto every corrupted audio cds music freedom music disc." By Tony Smith.
• BMG to Replace Anti-rip Natalie Imbruglia CDs - "Bertelsmann Music Group has had to back down on plans corrupted audio cds to force anti-rip technologies on British CD buyers." By Tony corrupted audio cds Smith. [Register]
• New Scientist Correction to 'Big Audio Dynamite' - Retraction of article saying Cactus DataShield could damage music freedom speakers. "Midbar... has asked us to make clear music freedom that there is nothing in its technology on music freedom the market, past, current or future, that could, music freedom or would, be potentially damaging to equipment.&qu
• Slashdot: BMG's New Copy-Protected Audio CDs - "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-dri
• Felt Tip Marker Defeats Copy-Protected CDs - News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
• Big Five Labels Sued Over Copy-Protected CDs - "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 cont
• Another Class Action Over Crippled Music Disks - News brief and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
• Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers - "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]
• Record Labels Beware - Study suggests that, if the music industry wants corrupted audio cds to experiment with selling copy-protected CDs, "there [must] corrupted audio cds be mandatory warning labels on the CDs or corrupted audio cds the industry risks seriously alienating consumers." By Jon corrupted audio cds Iverson. [Stereophile]
• Lawsuit Challenges Copy-protected CDs - Reader discussion of Reuters article. [Slashdot]
• Special Report: Copy-Protected CDs - "How the labels are trying to stop you." [Rolling Stone]
• New CD Protection Won't Play on PCs - "Israeli security company Midbar Tech is releasing 1 music freedom million intellectual property copy-protected CDs in Japan as part of music freedom an aggressive intellectual property push by record labels to curtail music freedom digital piracy." By intellectual property Gwendolyn Mariano. [ZDNet]
• NewOlde.com - How to Detect and Avoid Copy-Controlled CDs - Information for classical music listeners to help them intellectual property identify Copy-Controlled CDs, including the graphics that appear intellectual property on the packaging.
• Lawsuit Challenges Copy-Protected CDs - "The five major record companies have been hit corrupted audio cds with a class-action lawsuit charging that new CDs corrupted audio cds designed to thwart Napster-style piracy are defective and corrupted audio cds should either be barred from sale or carry corrupted audio cds warning labels." [Reuters]
• Register: 1M Anti-piracy Hi-fi Nuking CDs Hit Europe - "One million CDs have been released in Europe music freedom which intellectual property are protected by the controversial anti-piracy system music freedom Cactus Data intellectual property Shield... The Cactus Data Shield system music freedom is controversial because intellectual property the technology could blow your music freedom hi-fi speakers." By Robert intellectual property Blin
• Philips: Don't Mess with the CD! - "According to Philips, recent attempts to add playback corrupted audio cds corrupted audio cds restriction technology to new releases is not just corrupted audio cds corrupted audio cds a bad idea: Because the Red Book recipe corrupted audio cds corrupted audio cds has been altered, the discs no longer qualify corrupted audio cds corrupted audio cds as CDs and should be labeled clearly." By corrupted audio cds corrupted audio cds Jon Iverson
• Copy Protection On CDs Is 'Worthless' - Reader comments on New Scientist article. [Slashdot]

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