I know this isn't slashdot, but most of you work with
digital audio so you'll know where I'm coming from.
Sorry if this is too off topic.
Lets just say that the powers that be can finally(!)
make an unbreakable encryption. [That'll never happen
as it is - every lock has a key, but assuming it
can...]
Then it would take *one* person to run the signal from
a "protected cd"-friendly compact disc player into a
digital recording device (ie computer with any wave
editing program) and thus create corresponding
aiff/wav files and [ghasp] mp3 files. Thus one burns
a new copy that she could actually listen in her
laptop.
People would argue "Well not everyone has Sound Forge
or a DAT recorder, so that would limit the
circulation, etc." Obviously that is silly, as once
those sound files are rendered by one person, it would
take the same current channels of circulation to move
the unencrypted, *new* data. And the real kicker is
that this method would not even technically be
violating the reverse engineering prohibition, since
the original disc never would go into the actual
computer and none of the original data would ever be
extracted.
So my bottom line: the only successful non-computer
playable cds would be the cds with no playable music
on them for *any* device with a simple output line.
Brandon
--- Syntax8rror@aol.com wrote:
quoted 5 lines and journalists sell or give the cd when they don't
> and journalists sell or give the cd when they don't
> like it. there are shops
> full of promo ceedees...
>
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