Hallo, Daniel James hat gesagt: // Daniel James wrote: > > You write "[...] the use of these techniques is > > not always indicated on album packaging." At least in Germany this > > now isn't true anymore. > > I just bought the Strokes album from an on-line store, and I was upset > to find out on opening the packaging that it was 'corrupt'. However, > the CD played perfectly on my Linux box without DRM of any kind, and > in my wife's car CD player too. > > So I'm inclined to think that a lot of these warnings are bluffs - the > label wants you to think the disc is non-standard, but the shops > don't want all the returns and the bills for broken hardware. Another possibility might be - in Germany - that if there is no copy protection warning on the box, then a customer could be inclined to think, that, yes, copying this is not prohibited. Shortly after the new law was done here, I suddenly found DRM stickers on every Playstation 2 game in the shops. Those are protected for years and it was never explicitly mentioned on the box until now. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__