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Anti-Piracy Crackdown
Posted by Paul Szynol on Monday, January 20 @ 16:14:26 EST News
Spanish authorities have arrested 40 people and confiscated 240,000 CDs and DVDs with a street value of over $2 mn, Yahoo reports.
The raids over the past 24 hours took place in 11 Madrid apartments, a country villa and a warehouse on the capital's outskirts, said Acebes. The 40 arrested included 29 Chinese, nine Senegalese and two Taiwan-born Spaniards.
In the meantime, Microsoft is introducing new DRM technology, known as the Windows Media Data Session Toolkit. "It enables music labels to lay songs onto a copy-controlled CD in multiple layers", so that companies can impose digital protection and at the same time maintain PC compatibility (i.e., CDs will play in PCs despite the digital protection). Microsoft sounds very excited about its product.
 
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by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Monday, January 20 @ 17:12:16 EST
If the CD contains the same content on the normal standards-compliant layer and the new DRM layer, then what is the point?

I think we can take that as an indication that they won't contain the same data. Maybe the audio portion will not have every song or maybe it will be of diminished quality.

In that case, this is just another annoying copyright protection scheme which will be broken by those who want to violate the copyrights. Normal users, as always, will be screwed.


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Re: Anti-Piracy Crackdown (Score: 1)
by HowardGilbert on Tuesday, January 21 @ 13:43:21 EST
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Although several news sites repeat the claim that this uses "multiple layers", as the title "Data Session Toolkit" implies this is a second session trick. Multisession CD-R has been around for a while. There is also a two session manufactured (pressed) CD standard called the "Blue Book" for music CDs with extra computer content. The Microsoft technology appears to put Windows Media 9 DRM protected content in this second session. Audio CD players don't see the second session. PC devices do see it. Normally a second session overrides the first session directory, at least in CD-R sessions. The implication is that using standard operating systems and device drivers, a PC will access the first session content only through the directory and DRM controls in the second session, but there isn't enough detail in any of the MS published material to be sure of that right now.


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