RE: [OT] LIMITED-PLAY DVDS TAKE A STEP CLOSER

[Scott Crowther <scrowther@xxxxxxx>]

this is an interesting one.

 

did you know that the RIAA (US music industry body) are being

questioned by Senate about the legalities of copy protecting audio CDs?

 

apparantely all the MP3 and CD duplication eqpt we buy has a percentage

of its sale cost taken by the RIAA to distribute to its members as

compensation for loss of CD sales (ie to pay the artists with)

 

The Senate see CD copy protection as a breach of this royalty agreement, and are

considering making it illegal to build in copy protection to CD's.

 

This will rumble on for ever, by which time a new format/compression

software'll make it all redundant anyway...

 

Scott Crowther
Intamac Systems Ltd

t: +44 (0)1604 679262
e. scrowther@xxxxxxx
w. www.intamac.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennwatt@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 January 2002 17:55
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] [OT] LIMITED-PLAY DVDS TAKE A STEP CLOSER

LIMITED-PLAY DVDS TAKE A STEP CLOSER

 

SpectraDisc, a US optical electronics manufacturer,

has been issued a US Patent for its limited-play

CD/DVD technology. Aimed directly at the rental

industry, SpectraDisc's new technology can create

DVDs with a special coating that causes them to

become unplayable after a set period of time. Such

is the functionality of its new coating,

SpectraDisc say their DVDs can be made to expire

anywhere within minutes or weeks of the DVD's

packaging being opened.

 

Oh bugger, another bloody format protection racket!

 

K.

 

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