[Discussioni] Fwd: [fsl-discuss] Standards: Register: Phillips moves to put 'poison' label on protected audio CDs

[Alessandro Rubini]

> From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself a ix.netcom.com>
> To: FSL Discuss <fsl-discuss a alt.org>
> Subject: [fsl-discuss] Standards: Register:  Phillips moves to put 'poison' label on protected audio CDs
> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:13:05 -0800

2002.01.18: Register:  Phillips moves to put 'poison' label on protected au=
dio CDs

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23736.html

    By John Lettice
    Posted: 18/01/2002 at 13:19 GMT

    Netherlands giant Philips Electronics has lobbed a grenade into the
    audio copy protection arena by insisting that that CDs including
    anti-copying technology should bear what is effectively a plague
    warning. They should in Philips' view clearly inform users that they
    are copy-protected, and they shouldn't use the "Compact Disc" logo
    because they are not, in Philips' considered view, proper compact
    discs at all.

    [...]

    Meanwhile, the second barrel of the Philips shotgun is CD burning.
    In a Reuters interview Gerry Wirtz, general manager of Philips'
    copyright office, said that the company would be building CD burners
    that can read and burn copy protected CDs. He argues that the
    protection system is not a protection system as such, but simply a
    mechanism for stopping the playback of music. This interesting claim
    allows him to contend that the protection systems are not covered by
    the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and lays the ground for the
    mother of all sue-fests with the number of large and rich companies
    who are most certainly not going to agree with him. Tin hats all
    round. =AE