Topic: - on November 9, 2002 at 12:40:32 AM CET
New discs: Unfriendly but better sound
Two new digital audio disc formats touted by the music industry for their stellar sound are nowhere near as consumer-friendly as regular old CDs.
They're engineered to be copy-proof.
The proposition thrills digital piracy-fearing record executives. But many audiophiles are cool to the virtual padlocks, which could prove the undoing of one or both formats.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 5:25:15 PM CET
CD-Kopierschutz: Die Musikindustrie schadet sich selbst
Hallo,
nachdem eine gekaufte CD in keinem meiner Geräte lief, habe ich eine Mail an EMI geschrieben. Hier könnt ihr meine Mail und die Antwort von EMI lesen.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 5:22:30 PM CET
All CDs will be protected and you are a filthy pirate
One mad consumer relations team might be an isolated incident, two begins to look like a trend. The dismissive response Bertelsmann Music Group's copy protection team recently issued to a consumer's query essentially boiled down to, 'all Cds will be copy protected, it's not our problem that they won't play on some devices, so tough.' But apparently, it's a competition. EMI Germany is taking pretty much the same attitude, and its humorously-tagged Consumer Relations team is calling the customers pirates while it's about it.
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Topic: - on November 7, 2002 at 11:19:20 PM CET
Es boomt (nicht)
"Thank you for the musik", sagen immer mehr Internet-Nutzer - und meinen damit die kostenlosen P2P-Börsen. Verkauft wird Musik im Web hingegen immer weniger.
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Topic: - on November 7, 2002 at 3:56:06 PM CET
Copy protection on CDs is 'worthless'
The technology built into some CDs to stop people copying them is futile, according to a computer scientist who has put today's antipiracy systems under the microscope. He believes the continual software and hardware upgrades issued by the makers of computer CD drives and audio CD players render copy protection systems pointless in the long run.
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Topic: - on November 6, 2002 at 11:59:21 PM CET
Die Spur führt auch nach Deutschland
Mehr als 60 Millionen Euro soll ein Piratenring über das Web umgesetzt haben, der von der italienischen Polizei ausgehoben wurde. Jetzt werden Razzien in Deutschland, England, Spanien und den Niederlanden erwartet.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 6, 2002 at 11:36:58 PM CET
BMG forciert Kopierschutz auf Musik-CDs
Die Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) will anscheinend keine Musik-CDs mehr ohne Kopierschutz verkaufen. Auf einer speziellen Website zu dem Thema äußert sich die Musikfirma zu der Problematik und rechtfertigt die technischen Maßnahmen. Dort heißt es, auch BMG werde "einen Kopierschutz bei digitalen Trägermedien einsetzen, wie er auch bei vergleichbaren Medien -- Computersoftware, Videospiele oder DVD -- schon lange eingesetzt wird". Bisher habe die technische Möglichkeit gefehlt, Musik-CDs und vergleichbare Produkte vor dem Kopieren zu schützen. "Dies hat sich inzwischen geändert. Verschiedene international verfügbare Kopierschutzverfahren werden derzeit in Kooperation mit Sonopress geprüft, in umfangreichen Testreihen erprobt und ständig dem neuesten Stand der Technik angepasst", heißt es weiter bei BMG.
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Topic: - on November 5, 2002 at 10:50:48 AM CET
D.I.Y. or Die: Burn This DVD
A Los Angeles-based filmmaker has a message for anti-file-swapping folks like Metallica's Lars Ulrich -- he's encouraging people to burn copies of his new DVD. Michael W. Dean says his guide to being an independent artist, "D.I.Y. or Die: Burn This DVD," takes a page from Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" and tells people to make copies for their friends.
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Topic: - on November 4, 2002 at 8:15:23 PM CET
American Open Technology Consortium
Educating politics about technology
The Worst Coders in Washington The best code in the world can be foiled by a single bug. One careless line of code can crash an entire program. Lawrence Lessig calls laws "East Coast Code," and it only takes a few buggy laws to strangle freedom and innovation in technology. Laws like the DMCA, the Hollings Bill, and the CDA threaten to put the American technology juggernaut up on blocks.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act Communications Decency Act Child Online Protection Act Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act P2P Piracy Prevention Bill CIPA
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Topic: - on November 4, 2002 at 7:49:05 PM CET
Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act
The Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act (the “DMCRA”) restores the historical balance in copyright law and ensures the proper labeling of “copy-protected compact discs”.
- Restores the Historic Balance in U.S. Copyright Law
Reaffirms Fair Use. The DMCRA provides that it is not a violation of Section 1201 of Title 17 (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA) to circumvent a technological measure in connection with gaining access to or using a work if the circumvention does not result in an infringement of the copyright in the work. For example, under the bill a user may circumvent an access control on an electronic book he purchased for the purpose of reading it on a different electronic reader. However, if he were to upload the book onto the Internet for distribution to others, he would be liable for both a Section 1201 circumvention violation and for copyright infringement.
¬> DMCRA
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Topic: - on November 4, 2002 at 7:14:24 PM CET
The Death Of The Internet
How Industry Intends To Kill The 'Net As We Know It
The Internet’s promise as a new medium -- where text, audio, video and data can be freely exchanged -- is under attack by the corporations that control the public’s access to the 'Net, as they see opportunities to monitor and charge for the content people seek and send. The industry’s vision is the online equivalent of seizing the taxpayer-owned airways, as radio and television conglomerates did over the course of the 20th century.
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Topic: - on November 4, 2002 at 12:36:48 PM CET
Online music sales plummet
Sales of CDs and cassettes online have fallen by 25% in the first nine months of 2002, according to a survey. The increasing popularity of CD copying, or burning, and illegal song-swapping over the internet has been blamed for the drop.
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