05-21-2002, 01:47 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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�Copy-proof� CDs foiled by a marker
http://www.msnbc.com/news/754854.asp
"Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music�s elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a decidedly low-tech method: scribbling around the rim of a disk with a felt-tip marker."
I have one thing to say. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 
When publishers try to punish people and take away their rights - that's right, we have the RIGHT to make a private copy of our music - someone will find a way around it. Instead of expending your energy on more DRM (Digital Rights Madness) technology, how about giving us the ability to legally purchase, not rent, songs over the internet for a buck each? Until you do that, Morpheus, Kazaa, or something will continue to fulfill our desire for that one song we want without having to buy a $15 CD. $16 after we buy a Sharpie to circumvent your copy protection scheme.
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05-21-2002, 02:27 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 48
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OUTRAGEOUS!!
I just sent SONY Music this email:
Your attempts at copy-protecting music CDs are OUTRAGEOUS! I can't believe you are punishing the vast majority of your customers who pay full price for your product and use it in a legal and legitimate manner in order to stop the small fraction that steal and cheat. I agree that copying music over the internet is a crime, so punish the offenders... not the innocent! If I buy a CD I have a right to play it on any device I own, including a computer. I also have a right to copy songs to a recordable CD to make a mix to play in my car. When you sell your SONY computers you advertise these things as a feature!
I have spent many tens of thousands of dollars on SONY products in my life and have respected SONY as an innovative and forward-thinking company with a strong customer focus, but if this type of irresponsible behavior continues I'll be looking hard at Panasonic or another of your worthy competitors for my next purchase.
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05-21-2002, 02:35 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Oh oh! Doesn't that mean that it is now a felony to produce, own, or transport a felt-tip marker???
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05-21-2002, 02:35 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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You know what's next... The music companies will demand a new tax on all felt-tip pens, with the proceeds going to them to offset the "piracy"...
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05-21-2002, 02:43 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 167
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
OMG, that's too damn funny. I'm still laughing at this one.
hackers 1 felt tip marker
big giant music industry $900 Million to develop a copy protection scheme that doesn't work.
Ha ha ha ha ha, thud
(the sound of a man laughing his head off)
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05-21-2002, 02:50 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Don't laugh too hard... They could easily move the copy protection track to the middle of the CD or a random location where it wouldn't be so easy to defeat. The point isn't that their first attempt was lame, but that they are making the attempt at all.
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05-21-2002, 02:51 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Originally Posted by tonyv
Oh oh! Doesn't that mean that it is now a felony to produce, own, or transport a felt-tip marker???
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The scary thing is that under the DMCA, you may be right.
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05-21-2002, 02:57 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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It's nearing all-our war, with music studios on one side, consumers on the other, and the musicians in the middle.
Anyone see what's wrong with this picture? Sheesh. :evil:
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05-21-2002, 02:59 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 167
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I dunno, musicians in the middle?
Musicians seem very well sided with the music companies, what was the heavy metal group that sued copyright infringers recently?
Musicians are just like anyone else, they may say they're in it for the artistic sense, but when the money starts rolling in, something tells me they're looking to see who's sharing their music without paying for it.
yes, this is the first attempt, we'll see what the second attempt will be like.
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05-21-2002, 03:11 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 48
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Musicians and the music industry have a right to be upset about illegal copying of music. If you feel the price is too high for a song, then don't buy it. There is nothing inherent in art that makes it everyone's right to own a free copy.
I'm not involved in the music industry at all, but if someone was downloading a portion of my paycheck from the internet I'd be upset and I suspect most people would feel the same way.
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