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Special Report: Copy-Protected CDs - http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=15990
"How the labels are trying to stop you." [Rolling Stone] |
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Customers Put Kibosh on Anti-Copy CD - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-276036.html
"Complaints about anti-copying technology on Natalie Imbruglia's latest CD force her record label to issue replacements for angry consumers." By John Borland. [CNet] |
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CNet: Protected CDs Quietly Slip into Stores - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-270164.html
"Consumers in ordinary record stores are unwittingly buying CDs that include technology designed to discourage the making of digital copies." |
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Philips Burning on Protection - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/02/50101
"Officials for Netherlands-based Philips, which licenses the compact disc logo for both discs and players, went on a tirade against the recording industry for shipping discs with deliberate errors burned into them." By Paul Boutin. [Wired] |
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New Scientist: Anti-piracy CD System Raises Distortion Fear - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn998
"The first CD title has already sold 100,000 copies, but it is causing concern among audio experts because they fear that the music may be audibly distorted." |
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Copy Protection on CDs is 'Worthless' - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3020
"The technology built into some CDs to stop people copying them is futile, according to a computer scientist who has put today's antipiracy systems under the microscope." By Barry Fox. [New Scientist] |
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'No More Music CDs Without Copy Protection,' Claims BMG Unit - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/06/no_more_music_cds_without/
"BMG is at it again, this time apparently set on applying copy protection to all its music products." By John Lettice. [Register] |
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Lawsuit Challenges Copy-Protected CDs - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-936527.html
"The five major record companies have been hit with a class-action lawsuit charging that new CDs designed to thwart Napster-style piracy are defective and should either be barred from sale or carry warning labels." [Reuters] |
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Consumer Claims Victory in CD Lawsuit - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-843114.html
"Makers of a recording by country-pop singer Charley Pride have agreed to stop tracking most listener habits and to warn consumers that the CD is not compatible with MP3 and other players, according to attorneys for a woman who sued the companies." By Lisa Bowman. [CNet] |
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BMG Backs Down Over Copy-Protected CD - http://slashdot.org/yro/01/11/18/0457230.shtml
Virgin Megastores has responded to a complaint from one of their customers and said that BMG has set up a helpline to allow people who bought the corrupt version, to exchange it for a real one. Virgin and HMV will also be bringing in new stock of uncorrupted CDs. [Slashdot] |
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Felt Tip Marker Defeats Copy-Protected CDs - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/22/1439253
News and reader discussion. [Slashdot] |
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Register: 'Hi-fi Nuking' CD Technology Safe Claims Developer - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/03/hifi_nuking_cd_technology_safe/
Skeptical report on New Scientist's retraction of its warning that Cactus could damage speakers playing copied CDs. By Tony Smith. |
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Register: US Record Label Sued over Anti-rip CD Technology - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/11/us_record_label_sued_over/
"An unnamed Californian woman has sued US country music record label Fahrenheit Entertainment for allegedly misleading its customers by shipping CDs protected with an anti-rip mechanism." By Tony Smith. |
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Register: Music Biz Patents Anti-rip Encryption Technology - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/17/music_biz_patents_antirip_encryption/
"Details of the method appear in a patent filed by IFPI. The patent, GB2357165, centres on encrypting the track time codes stamped onto every music disc." By Tony Smith. |
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Register: Anti-rip CD System Bypassed - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/01/antirip_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. |
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Slashdot: NSync Copy Protected CD - http://slashdot.org/articles/01/10/02/163256.shtml
"NSync's new CD will be released in a least 3 different versions (with different copy protection techniques)." News and reader comments. |
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The Register - Congressman Assails CD Copy Protection - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/08/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. |
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NewOlde.com - How to Detect and Avoid Copy-Controlled CDs - http://www.newolde.com/copy_controlled_cd.htm
Information for classical music listeners to help them identify Copy-Controlled CDs, including the graphics that appear on the packaging. |
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Slashdot: BMG's New Copy-Protected Audio CDs - http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/25/116237.shtml
"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-drive." News and reader comments. |
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New Scientist: New CD Anti-Piracy System Could Damage Loudspeakers - http://www.rense.com/general12/news.htm
"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." |
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kuro5hin: New Scientist: SafeDisc Can Cause Damage to Speakers - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/1/17156/40276
"New Scientist reports that the new anti-piracy feature on audio CDs, has the potential to damage loudspeakers by introducing square waves into the amplified signal." News and reader comments. |
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Cactus CD Copy Protection is Launched This Month - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/8/72812/62445
"To thwart file swappers, Universal Music Group executives have said they want to protect a large proportion of their new releases as early as midyear." News and reader discussion. [kuro5hin] |
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BMG Stops Producing CDs - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/1312259
"The Register has a new story about claims by Bertelsmann that they'll stop manufacturing uncrippled audio CDs." News and reader comments. [Slashdot] |
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Hey, Big Five - Copyright This! - http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/06/19/19130151
"A class action lawsuit has been filed against the five major record labels for manufacturing and distributing defective or dysfunctional compact discs." News and reader discussion. [Plastic] |
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Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/03/226233
"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] |
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Metafilter - http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/9152
Community weblog discussing protected and corrupted audio CDs. |
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Register: 1M Anti-piracy Hi-fi Nuking CDs Hit Europe - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/03/1m_antipiracy_hifi_nuking_cds/
"One million CDs have been released in Europe which are protected by the controversial anti-piracy system Cactus Data Shield... The Cactus Data Shield system is controversial because the technology could blow your hi-fi speakers." By Robert Blincoe. |
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Slashdot -Stations Can't Play Crippled Music Disks - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/0031209
Reader comments on The Age article reporting that some radio stations are unable to play copy-protected CDs. |
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New Scientist Correction to 'Big Audio Dynamite' - http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17123047.100
Retraction of article saying Cactus DataShield could damage speakers. "Midbar... has asked us to make clear that there is nothing in its technology on the market, past, current or future, that could, or would, be potentially damaging to equipment." |
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New Scientist: NSync CD is Copy Protection "Experiment" - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1367
"The music industry is now testing different copy protection systems on mass market chart CDs, with copies of NSync's Celebrity on the Zomba label being sold in at least three different versions." |