Philips tells industry: "Don't Mess with the CD "


See the attached Sterophile link. Phillips which holds the patents to "Redbook" standard CD technology is saying that new CDs that have copyguard and playback restriction technology are not up to Redbook standards, so cannot not be called Compact Discs and should be labeled accordingly with warnings, etc. Very interesting.
http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1247
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Showing 1 response by awdeeofyle

Hey there Aroc,

We might not get to choose our battles, but we can support those who’s interests coincide with our own. Lets hope the $ follow Phillips and not the loser (protectionism at any cost) companies.

I wonder if those FAT protectionist companies aren't barking up the wrong tree anyway. ...Seems to me that companies like Microsoft et competitors stand to do a lot more to effect data-transfer & media/copyright infringement issues. Look at them going after the video game market - Sony be damned!

As long as MS can successfully protect their own intellectual property they won't care what happens to the recording/music industry - unless it makes them $ to be interested. I'd say we've got a better chance of an IT company coming up with a better (data) 'standard' than the music industry.

Just another rant…
:>)
Mike