[Discussioni] RE: Phillips moves to put 'poison' label on protected audio CDs

[Alex Malgaroli]

> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:22:48 +0100
> From: Alessandro Rubini <rubini a gnu.org>
> Subject: [Discussioni] Fwd: [fsl-discuss] Standards: Register:
> Phillips moves to put 'poison' label on protected audio CDs
>     http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23736.html
>
>     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.

ROTFL
(Chi è che ha il brevetto originale del "Compact Disc"? La Philips o la
Sony? Non ricordo più... Se fosse la Philips sto già godendo.)

>     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

(ROTFL)^(ROTFL)
Chi è che sarebbe un hacker???
Che spettacolare mossa pubblicitaria della Philips...

ALX