Slashdot posted this article about copy protection on Sony’s new Celine Dion CD. The disk apparently contains errors or artifacts that will likely cause any Macintosh or PC Clone to crash when attemptig to play the disk. If this is true, it’s absurd, as I’m pretty sure that the manufacturers of CD drives pay the licensing fees required to be a CD drive. If disks like this are to be manufactured in the future, they should NOT be allowed to be called CDs as they do NOT adhere to the standard.
Copy Protection by Making Everything Suck
April 4th, 2002 · 3 Comments
Tags: Techie
3 responses so far ↓
1 nic // Apr 4, 2002 at 10:15 pm
This of course begs the question, “what would anyone be doing with a copy of a Celine Dion CD and who would actually want to listen to it?”
2 Elliott // Apr 5, 2002 at 1:23 pm
If you are Sony, and you make a billion dollars a year on recorded CD sales and twenty billion dollars a year on big hard drive and MP3 player sales, why are you going to go to bat for the musicians?This thought courtesy of an article in the New York Times business section a couple of Sundays ago.
3 tikihead // Apr 5, 2002 at 5:30 pm
Someone said “Scotty stinks”, and I said “Like Shit he does!”
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