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Mazer · 07-11-02, 10:53 AM

You call that a long post? I've read rants that went on for ten pages (though they didn't make as much sense as you do, smokey). Good read.

I think all you said applies directly to CD protection. They have every right to do it, since it's their own product. And consumers have every right to deprotect their own CD's too, no matter what the DMCA tells them. Most people will go on buying the protected CD's and never care that they're copy protected. But the people on the fringe will bypass every countermeasure the record industry throws at them. The battle will become more and more obscure as CD's become more and more mutated.

Eventually every copy protected CD will be required to carry a warning label, and after that Phillips will force them to remove the 'Compact Disk Digital Audio' label. At that point it will harm sales, and as other mediums like DVD Audio take hold people won't even buy the copy protected CD's anymore. (Maybe it's an elaborate ploy to make people buy DVD Audio players, but probably not.) At any rate, CD's are becoming more obsolete as time passes, and the industry is making it happen faster.

This is one technology that won't be pushed underground and across borders, for once it gets there the people there will reject it as inferior. In a short while the companies producing protected CD's will be as few as the people hacking them. CD's were supposed to be a great technological jump forward when they first appeared, but decades from now they will be looked at as a failed experement that somehow managed to last a quarter century. Centuries from now archaeologists will discover landfills filled with billions of junk disks and look at them as evidence of our primative civilization. Heh, that's the legacy the record industry is leaving us with.

07-11-02, 10:53 AM	#6
Mazer Earthbound misfit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Moses Lake, Washington Posts: 2,563	You call that a long post? I've read rants that went on for ten pages (though they didn't make as much sense as you do, smokey). Good read. I think all you said applies directly to CD protection. They have every right to do it, since it's their own product. And consumers have every right to deprotect their own CD's too, no matter what the DMCA tells them. Most people will go on buying the protected CD's and never care that they're copy protected. But the people on the fringe will bypass every countermeasure the record industry throws at them. The battle will become more and more obscure as CD's become more and more mutated. Eventually every copy protected CD will be required to carry a warning label, and after that Phillips will force them to remove the 'Compact Disk Digital Audio' label. At that point it will harm sales, and as other mediums like DVD Audio take hold people won't even buy the copy protected CD's anymore. (Maybe it's an elaborate ploy to make people buy DVD Audio players, but probably not.) At any rate, CD's are becoming more obsolete as time passes, and the industry is making it happen faster. This is one technology that won't be pushed underground and across borders, for once it gets there the people there will reject it as inferior. In a short while the companies producing protected CD's will be as few as the people hacking them. CD's were supposed to be a great technological jump forward when they first appeared, but decades from now they will be looked at as a failed experement that somehow managed to last a quarter century. Centuries from now archaeologists will discover landfills filled with billions of junk disks and look at them as evidence of our primative civilization. Heh, that's the legacy the record industry is leaving us with.