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RE: Do you really think CDs will be protected in future?
From: "David Vincent" <david.vincent () mightyoaks com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:18:48 -0700
I don`t know what you think about this, but in my opinion will never exist a method to REALLY protect CDs, just because I think that "if I can ear it, I can reproduce (and record) it".
There will never be a point where you can't make an analogue copy by simply recording the output. What the RIAA are afraid of is *digital* copies where each copy is as good if not better than the original. If they can make it impossible to "rip" a track to a computer or degrade the copy once ripped, then we go back to the old days of poor-copy audio-to-audio copies being sold on street markets (rather than the current situation with cd-quality albums being sold at near production cost rather than the 5,000% markup for RIAA "overheads" now common - if CDs only cost true production cost (mastering cost divided by number of copies made, plus stamping, packaging and royalties per-copy) you would get change out of 30p.... and I don't consider bribes for "airplay" a true cost.
to put my mind at ease, please define "better" than the original. MP3 is a lossy codec, by design it cannot create a "better" sounding recording. there are other formats which aren't so lossy and the actual difference is pretty darn negligible (especially if you're playing them in your car where the background noise of driving would likely mask any minor "flaws" in the encoding). by "better" do you may mean more portable, as in I can now put several albums on a single CDR and play that in a laptop etc. for more hours of music from a single CD form factor.
"if I can ear it, I can reproduce (and record) it"
exactly, there is nothing stopping me from using my discman, plugging the audio jack into the back of my pc and doing a good old fashioned dub of the disc. sure it is slow, but since these copy "protected" cds will play on standard equipment the only real degradation of the sound would be from the analog cable and some (likely) minor noise from the pc's internal components. -d _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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