I assume limiting plays on a piece of read-only optical media would be
impossible since there would be no way to write that value on the disc.
The only thing I can think of would be a special cd player that counted
how many times you put in a specific disc and when you pressed play, then
stored that value in memory. It could then disable the play button for
that specific disc. So with that in mind it wouldn't be the disc that was
limited but the cd player...I don't think major labels have that much
pull over the hundreds of cd player manufacturers that exsist. It's a
novel idea though and I wouldn't put it past a bunch of red-faced white
men in suits.
BTW--Isn't Autecre released under Warp in the UK and Nothing in the US?
If so do these labels count as major labels?
-Lee
quoted 1 line foam bee wrote this on 1/25/00 2:20 AM>foam bee wrote this on 1/25/00 2:20 AMquoted 5 lines Anyhow, I found that an extra track just magically appeared on my lp5, and>Anyhow, I found that an extra track just magically appeared on my lp5, and
>I'm assuming it's something like 50 plays. I also know that they could do
>something like that because major labels were talking about limiting CDs
>to 1000 plays and then they stop working. anyone lost?? good. let me
>know if anone else has heard of this.
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