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Comes now this article (news.com.com.com) on the development of DRM technology that will allow consumers to burn their own CDs, but prevent those CDs from being copied. The companies behind these brilliant can't-fail perpetual-motion pyramid-scheme con games are Macrovision and SunnComm, the folks who brought, respectively, you the fuzzy lines that infect your TV when your DVD player mistakes it for a VCR, and the threat to sue a college student for showing why their anti-CD-copying technology doesn't work.
An "uncopyable" CD burn has got, as I see it, just a few eensy problems:
- First of all, it won't actually be a CD, since I'm guessing it won't comply with the Red Book standard (here, technically, the Orange Book), a twist which raises the spectre of some gnarly lawsuits for false advertising and/or trademark infringement.
- Second, since this technology will basically have to be a home version of the technology already in use for making "unrippable" CDs professionally, it's going to suffer from every problem they do (e.g., you can ignore the copy protection by holding down the shift key as you insert the CD in your computer).
- And third, even a decade into the CD-R revolution, it's hard enough getting CD burning software to work reliably with every drive out there. Getting CD burning software to work reliably with every drive out there in recording discs that deviate from the audio recording standard sounds to me like a technical nightmare.
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Re: DRM Snake Oil Watch: Uncopyable CD Burns? (Score: 1) by JimCYL on Thursday, June 03 @ 18:42:31 EDT (User Info | Send a Message) http://synicism-online.blogspot.com | The biggest problem I have with this is that it requires an industry standard to really be effective. It's one thing for individual apps to do this, but it's quite another to require the entire computer industry to adopt the same DRM. Personally, I think this is a bad idea [synicism-online.blogspot.com], as I note in my own blog. |
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