On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:43:23PM +0100, Daniel James wrote: > Since I wrote that article, an interesting example came my way - > apparently, radio stations that use PC based playlist systems just > throw Cactus discs in the bin. If it won't rip at full quality - it > can't get played on air. Ouch! That should hit the jerks where it hurts. Anyway, I can't see what's to stop a pirate duplicator playing the copy protected CD in a good player (with error correction or interpolation, or whatever these things rely on) and re-digitising it and running their pirate copies from that, if that's what they really want to do. In otherwords a good old fashioned analog copy. The music merchants obviously aren't bothered about ultimate quality, are they? Neither are the MP3 swappers. Like an earlier poster, I am opposed to copy protection but also opposed to theft of music that's supposed to be for sale. I see no paradox here. I assume there are many music makers (as opposed to just consumers) on this list who are on the side of the music producers while at the same time (being Linux users) appreciating the absence of restrictive practices or sales contracts. -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827
