* Brandon Smith (gozravp@yahoo.com) said:
quoted 14 lines I know this isn't slashdot, but most of you work with
> 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.
You are assuming that the cd player is producing an unecnrypted signal.
The industry wants to watermark all audio and video. This watermark is
never removed. When you listen or watch your data, the mark is still
there, but "unpercetible" to humans.
If something like the SSSCA passes (in the U.S.), all digital devices
will be required to recognize these watermarks. Thus, you wouldn't be
able to make digital copies of this material as your recorder, by law,
wouldn't let you.
Though we are legally allowed to make personal copies for our own use,
there is no law that says we have to be ABLE to.
Everyone who cares about these issues should visit
http://www.eff.org/
as they are fighting hard against these issues. You can then all read
about the latest frightening incarnation called Consumer Broadband and
Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA).
-- jeremy avnet / brainsik .:.
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