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The Fifth Napster Item
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Mar 27 23:46 UTC 2001 |
I hope everyone can bear with yet another Napster item, linked between
Agora and Music conferences. Napster and the more general issues of
copyrights in the digital era, and the restructuring of the
record industry, continue to fascinate me, and there's
no sign of the news slowing down.
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krj
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response 1 of 143:
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Mar 27 23:54 UTC 2001 |
We'll start with an item from today's http://www.inside.com .
(I won't bother with the full URL, because by the time the story has moved
off the front page it will be a members-only article. So read it today.)
Inside reports that the music industry has a new plan to stop people
from ripping MP3 files from compact discs. The plan is to muck with
the disc's directory structure and to introduce deliberate errors into
the data, so that the disc will be unplayable on CD-ROM drives.
The Inside article goes on at quite a bit more length with what
details they have of the scheme.
Supposedly audio CD players are more determined to push on through
errors and won't be affected. However, if you planned to use your
computer as a CD copying machine, you'll be out of luck.
If you plan to just listen to your legitimate CD on your computer, you'll
also be out of luck. Inside also reports that a number of high-end and
car stereo CD players use CD-ROM players, so the disc won't play
for those consumers either.
This plan isn't vaporware: according to the article, the new CD by
70's country star Charley Pride will use this scheme.
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