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CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #25 –
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1. Member States shall provide adequate legal protection against the circumvention of any effective technological measures, which the person concerned carries out in the knowledge, or with reasonable grounds to know, that he or she is pursuing that objective.
2. Member States shall provide adequate legal protection against the manufacture, import, distribution, sale, rental, advertisement for sale or rental, or possession for commercial purposes of devices, products or components or the provision of services which:
( a ) are promoted, advertised or marketed for the purpose of circumvention of, or
( b ) have only a limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent, or
( c ) are primarily designed, produced, adapted or performed for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of,
any effective technological measures.
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Time for a new software tool, something originally designed for garden planning or printing kite templates or something, and then someone tries it for a different use and gives it a name...

CRACCIT = CRACCIT Really Ain't a Copyright CIrcumvention Tool"

>>>Future news story:
CDS meets CRACCIT...and Loses!
--No one arrested because software was only intended and marketed for designing kite templates.  No one knew it would also be able to provide secure CD ripping and adaptably bypass copy protections.  Plus it was never "distributed" as such, only uploaded to a private server and then mirrored by various "kite clubs".  Recording industry officials are banging their heads against the wall over this one, with seemingly no legal way to stop it.  Downloads topped 1.5 million this week...     

Whatever the name or "original purpose", this will happen just a sure as the sun will rise.  And perhaps just as soon.  Another honeypot for hackers, with the added challenge of diverting the "perceived intent".

When you outlaw what is morally acceptable, then people with morals become outlaws.

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #26 –
so what you are saying is that my 'summer trash - part3' compilation is/will be illegal?  (yes, i do own all the cd's)
PANIC: CPU 1: Cache Error (unrecoverable - dcache data) Eframe = 0x90000000208cf3b8
NOTICE - cpu 0 didn't dump TLB, may be hung

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #27 –
There will always be ways...

Music is / was copied since the invention of the recording devices. Not so long ago, we used to copy our friends' CDs to tapes (cassettes). I still keep at home ~250 high quality cassettes (CrO2, 90 min.) with great music onto them. Ofcourse, the quality is somewhere near MP3 @ 112 or 128 kbps, but still, it's OK.
As far as I remember, copying music on cassettes (altough illegal) was never chased, at least not as much as nowadays MP3s are chased.
If this law is accepted, it will not be "The end of pirated music" but "A huge step backwards" for the quality of pirated music.
And, when I download nowadays music which I like very much (P2P allows me to get to know much more music and artists than other ways) I always go and buy the CD, for a couple of reasons. Among these - quality, portability, book, etc.
I think when I download worse quality MP3s, I'll buy less CDs, because I'll like less artists "so much, that I'll go to buy their CDs".
So, who's the looser now?

My first CD-Rom ever was an expensive 4X Mitsumi (FX-400), which works perfectly even now (~7 years old!), but it can't extract CD digital audio because of copy-protection built in. This was the first conception of CD-Rom manifacturers, but it disappeared as quick as the first non-protected CD-Rom came out.
There'll always be things such as firmware hacks, software hacks, digital-to-digital copies etc.

I think that the whole concept of "forcing customers to buy legal products" is completely, totally, absolutely WRONG.
Nobody can force me to buy anything. I could even stop buying CDs I like much, just from pure obstinacy.
The right approach would be to make these "legal products" more attractive, more sellable, to make them cheaper, for example or so.
Also, the conception of AudioGalaxy was very very good - I would like to pay a fair subscription fee, to use it.

There are ways, gentlemen.

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #28 –
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Oh, one more thing.... The law says that it is illegal to crack an effective protection. Audio CDs have an effective digital protection, but they can never have an analog protection and therefore, it IS legal to make a copy of your CD using the analog way (CD -> MC, CD -> PC (analog), CD -> MD (analog)...).
The same thing does NOT apply to VHSs or DVDs, as the Macrovision protection is analog, while CSS (for DVDs) is digital. In this case you aren't allowed to copy the DVD at all!


Interesting...
How is it possible to tell whether a song has been encoded using the analog method, or digitally? Sure, you could tell by comparing a digitally ripped version to a questionable song, but wouldn't this comparison in itself be illegal? (I suppose not if the owner of the copyright was doing the comparison) 

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There is one thing which makes me unsure... My LITE-ON LTR-52246S recognizes a with Key2Audio protected CD as a normal Mixed Mode CD. I can play back the CD (in digital mode) whithout any problems. Does that mean that the protection isn't effective and therefore it IS LEGAL to copy it?


How effective is effective? If the CD has printed on it "It is illegal to copy this CD." (as a lot of non-protected CD's do), under these new laws would it be actually legal? 

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...I kinda like living in a "lawless" country.
 

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #29 –
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The same thing does NOT apply to VHSs or DVDs, as the Macrovision protection is analog, while CSS (for DVDs) is digital. In this case you aren't allowed to copy the DVD at all!

Macrovision (at least most versions) works by inserting codes in signal which the VCR
recognizes, then it refuses the signal, so it is dependant on the cooperation of the VCR.

I have an old VHS whcih doesn't recognize macrovision to begin with;  it doesn't so much circumvent macrovision as ignore it.  So it wold be legal, right?

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #30 –
This is an odd requirement:

"Member States shall provide adequate legal protection against the circumvention of any effective technological measures"

Anything that can be bypassed must be, by definition, ineffective.  So you can use any cracking tool you like, so long as it works!

I'm sure that's not how it will be prosecuted, but it's a possible defense.

Cheers, Paul

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #31 –
'Effective protection' in lawyer's speech means:
'Any protection which can't be copied without using special means to bypass it.'

Even modified TOC is an effective protection by that definition, because it can't be copied on some drives.

So, your line of defense is no good.
ruxvilti'a

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #32 –
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Macrovision (at least most versions) works by inserting codes in signal which the VCR
recognizes, then it refuses the signal, so it is dependant on the cooperation of the VCR.

I have an old VHS whcih doesn't recognize macrovision to begin with;  it doesn't so much circumvent macrovision as ignore it.  So it wold be legal, right?


As far as I know Macrovision is not a signal sent to be understood by a VCR as the SMCS (Serial Management Copy System) is for audio. It became more noticable when the HQ VCR arrived.

It is a tweak of a signal that perturbs the AGC (automatic gain control) of the VCR and that's why it perturbs also video projectors, systems that don't record video but simply show it. And anti Macrovision boxes are frequently used in that case.

Strangely I have a Thomson VCR that "feels" the Macrovision in preview of signal feeded into it, but when I launch "Record" the signal becomes perfect.

PS : Read this FAQ it's interesting. http://www.repairfaq.org/filipg/LINK/F_Mac...croVision1.html

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #33 –
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'Effective protection' in lawyer's speech means:
'Any protection which can't be copied without using special means to bypass it.'

Even modified TOC is an effective protection by that definition, because it can't be copied on some drives.

So, your line of defense is no good.

I respectfully disagree.  This defense would not die on that point, because the next step is for them to define the word special.

"Special means?  Oh, I didn't use any special means...just the same ol' things I do every time, nothing special was required."

"I didn't even know there was copy protection on it.  Written on the case?  In those tiny letters?  The tiny cryptic symbol?  So, I guess I would need special means to read the copy protection message."      Like a magifying glass or a decoder wheel?

The recoding industry in Europe and in the US is completely screwed over this debacle.  There are so many ways to shoot them down in court.  We're throwing dozens of ways around on just one website, and no one has even been arrested yet (under the new provisions anyway)!  Yes, they are a huge beast with huge armies of lawyers, but they still don't have enough lawyers to make a dent in the number of people who are going to use no special means to bypass them.

[venting=on]
Anyway, how could they find out what's on a person's computer in the first place?  Snoop?  Use special means to bypass my protections?  I swear if I ever catch them doing that, I'll dedicate my time to learning how to code (or simply borrowing) some especially nasty stuff to send up the pipe to their servers.  My PC is my livelihood, and I will defend my livelihood with my life.  It will not be taken from me under any circumstance.  My family would get a huge insurance claim if I were to die in, say, a hail of SWAT team bullets?  As far as I'm concerned, they can pry my keyboard out of my cold, dead fingers.  And no, I wouldn't be dying to protect my PC, I would be dying to protect a principle.  I am not breaking the law.  If someone says I am and shoots at me, I'm shooting back.   
[/venting]

*whew*  Sorry, just had to get that out.  Been trying to figure out exactly how to rant in this thread for hours now.  Not usually this violent...got a giant migraine, so that's probably the reason.  Anyway, I use FLAC, and any of them who "snoop" would mostly be looking for MP3's anyway, I would think.  So for now I guess they're not at risk.  I think I'll go take a Panlor and lie down before my head explodes...and come back when I'm not so pissy...

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #34 –
The problem is a possibility, that a company may block your bank accounts during the trial,
which could be very long...
Thus you would be forced to withdraw or just won't have the resources to age that war.
ruxvilti'a

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #35 –
It is up to the member countries to locally legislate and pass laws that put into effect various directives.

In Finland the parliament already rejected the first bad proposal which was based largerly on the EU original CD Copy draft.

Now the second draft of the same Finnish law proposal is making the rounds and it allows for making copies of music for personal use. It does not allow sharing of tracks for which the copyright holder has not given permission to.

There is a borderline however on copy protected music CDs. Regardless of what EU directive says, the Finnish law proposal (if passed) will legislate that if you can accidentally circumvent the copy protection (e.g. a drive does it for you with out any special settings), then it's not really a copy protection at all.

Even if all goes to hell, there is absolutely no way for anyone to actually put a law like that into practise and foresee that everyone obeys it.

The history of legislation in most countries (free democracies at the very least) has shown that a law that criminalises more c. 50% or more of the population will get overturned some time or it will become national humour target for a while and then everybody will just forget about it. Including representatives who voted for it, legislatives who drew it up and authorities who's job it is to work with it.

The main point for me about is however the following (having personally and publicly campaigned against the first brain-dead law proposal in Finland):

1) Know what's happening on your local legislative level that concerns you as an individual or a part of a collective

2) Bring forth your viewpoint to legislators, representatives and members of the press in a calm and point-by-point analysis type of manner. Legislators are often interested (in non-case law countries at least) about equality/symmetry effects of the law. Press members are interested in the human impact and economical ramifications. Politicians care if you say that you will not vote for them if they vote to pass a stupid law.

3) In effect, stop people making stupid decision. Nobody is perfect, not even if they have ten degrees and sit on important organisations and have extensive power. Influence them and more just things are likely to happen. This may be easier in smaller and less corrupt countries (look at Transparency international scale to get a feel

I have personal objections to a law that makes it illegal to circumvent copy protections, but I cannot defend my viewpoint as the only right one. Copyright holders should have a right to protect theirabout it. Including representatives who voted for it, legislatives who drew it up and authorities who's job it is to work with it.

The main point for me about is however the following (having personally and publicly campaigned against the first brain-dead law proposal in Finland):

1) Know what's happening on your local legislative level that concerns you as an individual or a part of a collective

2) Bring forth your viewpoint to legislators, representatives and members of the press in a calm and point-by-point analysis type of manner. Legislators are often interested (in non-case law countries at least) about equality/symmetry effects of the law. Press members are interested in the human impact and economical ramifications. Politicians care if you say that you will not vote for them if they vote to pass a stupid law.

3) In effect, stop people making stupid decision. Nobody is perfect, not even if they have ten degrees and sit on important organisations and have extensive power. Influence them and more just things are likely to happen. This may be easier in smaller and less corrupt countries (look at Transparency international scale to get a feel

I have personal objections to a law that makes it illegal to circumvent copy protections, but I cannot defend my viewpoint as the only right one. Copyright holders should have a right to protect their intellectual property. No qualms about that. I just don't agree with the methods and how it's legislated.

However, I have no objections to laws that discourage swapping music illegally (there is legal swapping as well!), just as long some provisions are made to the law (special needs, library, etc) that there is no huge amounts of collateral damage like with the stupid American DMCA.

I buy my CDs/vinyl as originals and it will remain like that regardless of new laws. Maybe there'll be new formats, but I like to support the artists whose music I like.

food for thought,
Halcyon

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #36 –
Please restrain from such long posts...
Forum bug!
ruxvilti'a

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #37 –
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The problem is a possibility, that a company may block your bank accounts during the trial,
which could be very long...
Thus you would be forced to withdraw or just won't have the resources to age that war.

If a company directly blocks my bank accounts, then I become a hacker immediately, and dedicate my life to taking them apart.  I'll also go on their payroll immediately in order to cover my resource needs if they decide to engage me.    All nice a legal, with their own approval documentation to back it up, even.  It'll take them longer to dislodge me from their throats than it will for them to sue me per their original intent.

If a company instead files a lawsuit to have my accounts blocked, then I shop for judges during the first cycle of actions, one of my favorite moves recently (well, since 1999).  You simply refile with multiple courts/judges in the same district (local/federal/whatever) and effectively nothing can happen or start until all such actions are acted upon by the courts.  Kind of like hiding a hundred easter eggs, and forcing your opponent to deal with each one while you "prep".  By the time they can get action on a motion to freeze my funds, my funds will be long gone (from them, anyway).  Hell, all I need is an hour, and I'll have at least a day.  I'll leave them one checking account with $0.99 in it, just for the principle of it (as long as it's disconnected from my SSN).   

Their main problem is that there will be ten million people on my side.  The faster they move on this "provision", the faster people will polarize against them.  The slower they move, the more time people will have to prepare/experiment as they hear of the first few cases and gather details on them.  It's what happens when you take on the world...you lose.  If they take on the world, they will lose too.  We are the world.  They are not.  Information is power, and there is too much technical expertise out here for them to survive it.  Their power is at our fingertips.  Literally.

Edit:  Sorry...not mad at anyone here.  This topic just peeves me more than any other (well, the topic of limiting freedom in general), and it is seriously what I would risk everything to protect.

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #38 –
I support you in full.
Even if I have to resort to drastic measures to protect liberty.
The only question is: how many Average Joes will take that course of action?
ruxvilti'a

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Reply #39 –
ScorLibran, the Paladin of Freedom!   

You have my support as well. Heh. At least morally.

~Dologan

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #40 –
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The only question is: how many Average Joes will take that course of action?

About the time the hundredth person is "hunted down" over this.  Once enough cases hit the news from anywhere in the world, the other 9,999,900 people will not visibly form into an "army", but they will be in communication with each other, mostly using the internet.  And communication is the medium behind the power of information...it's the "carrier wave" so to speak.  The people I refer to are the people of the world who care enough about music to get involved initially, and who care enough about freedom to stay involved to the end.  And ten million might be too small of an estimate, but I'm just using a nice round number to state my point.

Ironic...the internet, very platform causing US and European recording industries to think they have to take these steps is the same platform that will be their end.

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #41 –
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There will always be ways...

Music is / was copied since the invention of the recording devices.

it will not be "The end of pirated music" but "A huge step backwards" for the quality of pirated music.

My first CD-Rom ever was an expensive 4X Mitsumi (FX-400), which works perfectly even now (~7 years old!), but it can't extract CD digital audio because of copy-protection built in. This was the first conception of CD-Rom manifacturers, but it disappeared as quick as the first non-prottability, book, etc.

I think that the whole concept of "forcing customers to buy legal products" is completely, totally, absolutely WRONG.

Omit repeated paragraphs.. stupid ipb 1.2 BUG
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I agree there will always be ways. The genie is out of the bottle, as they say... p2p will just improve, they can't get rid of encryption in fear of losing "e-business", they will attempt to control the internet and the computers, they have been trying for decades, but they will never achieve full control, there are always holes, and people will use them.
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I don't agree with the "huge step backwards for the quality of music", again their dream of bringing back the self-destructive analog medium won't be possible anymore. People themselves are mastering digital formats, it is a control they have already lost. In the worst case scenario of analog play and digital capture, it only takes a good recording to spread the music again in digital in good enough quality. What they want is just not enforcable, these laws will have to go. And the few companies backing them too.
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A lot of people are going to be opressed with these laws, just to guarantee a safe revenue for a selected few. The people are not gonna stand this, its pretty much an aristocracy of sorts, and if they keep doing it, i have no doubt revolutions may start. Also not all countries are gonna accept this. Yes, most 1st world countries will, and most 3rd world countries in bed with first world countries will also follow, but don't think for a minute that everyone accepts washington's or europe's policy.
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I own a Mitsumi FX-001D (2x), complete with propietary interface card (still works, but not perfectly). What Mitsumi did in the early days was plain silly. They made the raw read command actually do a "play" command instead. Thieve full control, there are always holes, and people will use them.
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I don't agree with the "huge step backwards for the quality of music", again their dream of bringing back the self-destructive analog medium won't be possible anymore. People themselves are mastering digital formats, it is a control they have already lost. In the worst case scenario of analog play and digital capture, it only takes a good recording to spread the music again in digital in good enough quality. What they want is just not enforcable, these laws will have to go. And the few companies backing them too.
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A lot of people are going to be opressed with these laws, just to guarantee a safe revenue for a selected few. The people are not gonna stand this, its pretty much an aristocracy of sorts, and if they keep doing it, i have no doubt revolutions may start. Also not all countries are gonna accept this. Yes, most 1st world countries will, and most 3rd world countries in bed with first world countries will also follow, but don't think for a minute that everyone accepts washington's or europe's policy.
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I own a Mitsumi FX-001D (2x), complete with propietary interface card (still works, but not perfectly). What Mitsumi did in the early days was plain silly. They made the raw read command actually do a "play" command instead. They started this with my drive (2x), and up until around their (6x/8x) drive if i recall correctly. At the time, Mitsumi was the only manufacturer doing this on their own iniciative. People figured, Sony and Panasonic drives will rip no problem, only Mitsumi was the culprit, so ppl simply dumped Mitsumi the same way the original DivX (disposable DVD) concept was disposed by customers putting their money where it was worth.
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Their first 1x drive (with manually ejectable tray) actually accepted the raw command just fine, go figure  But they learned the lesson, hard way...
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Good example of marketing? Look at the japanese market. Look what they do with CDs, what they sell, they have smalle not gonna stand this, its pretty much an aristocracy of sorts, and if they keep doing it, i have no doubt revolutions may start. Also not all countries are gonna accept this. Yes, most 1st world countries will, and most 3rd world countries in bed with first world countries will also follow, but don't think for a minute that everyone accepts washington's or europe's policy.
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I own a Mitsumi FX-001D (2x), complete with propietary interface card (still works, but not perfectly). What Mitsumi did in the early days was plain silly. They made the raw read command actually do a "play" command instead. They started this with my drive (2x), and up until around their (6x/8x) drive if i recall correctly. At the time, Mitsumi was the only manufacturer doing this on their own iniciative. People figured, Sony and Panasonic drives will rip no problem, only Mitsumi was the culprit, so ppl simply dumped Mitsumi the same way the original DivX (disposable DVD) concept was disposed by customers putting their money where it was worth.
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Their first 1x drive (with manually ejectable tray) actually accepted the raw command just fine, go figure  But they learned the lesson, hard way...
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Good example of marketing? Look at the japanese market. Look what they do with CDs, what they sell, they have smalle not gonna stand this, its pretty much an aristocracy of sorts, and if they keep doing it, i have no doubt revolutions may start. Also not all countries are gonna accept this. Yes, most 1st world countries will, and most 3rd world countries in bed with first world countries will also follow, but don't think for a minute that everyone accepts washington's or europe's policy.
4
I own a Mitsumi FX-001D (2x), complete with propietary interface card (still works, but not perfectly). What Mitsumi did in the early days was plain silly. They made the raw read command actually do a "play" command instead. They started this with my drive (2x), and up until around their (6x/8x) drive if i recall correctly. At the time, Mitsumi was the only manufacturer doing this on their own iniciative. People figured, Sony and Panasonic drives will rip no problem, only Mitsumi was the culprit, so ppl simply dumped Mitsumi the same way the original DivX (disposable DVD) concept was disposed by customers putting their money where it was worth.
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Their first 1x drive (with manually ejectable tray) actually accepted the raw command just fine, go figure  But they learned the lesson, hard way...
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Good example of marketing? Look at the japanese market. Look what they do with CDs, what they sell, they have small and cheap 8cm "singles", they have lots of custom jewel cases with pretty gifs inside, they have 8cm DVD "singles" too, instead of 4 audio songs, it can have 2 promotional videos, etc, etc. They have a much more lively scene there. The japanese artists are working hard, doing commercials, their own TV shows, acting in jdrama or movies, not to mention live concerts and such.
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The American counterparts are very lazy in comparison. They just want to sit, do nothing and earn money selling "copies" and sending lawyers. Well this at least from the record labels, the real culprit here. The artists themhey started this with my drive (2x), and up until around their (6x/8x) drive if i recall correctly. At the time, Mitsumi was the only manufacturer doing this on their own iniciative. People figured, Sony and Panasonic drives will rip no problem, only Mitsumi was the culprit, so ppl simply dumped Mitsumi the same way the original DivX (disposable DVD) concept was disposed by customers putting their money where it was worth.
5
Their first 1x drive (with manually ejectable tray) actually accepted the raw command just fine, go figure  But they learned the lesson, hard way...
6
Good example of marketing? Look at the japanese market. Look what they do with CDs, what they sell, they have small and cheap 8cm "singles", they have lots of custom jewel cases with pretty gifs inside, they have 8cm DVD "singles" too, instead of 4 audio songs, it can have 2 promotional videos, etc, etc. They have a much more lively scene there. The japanese artists are working hard, doing commercials, their own TV shows, acting in jdrama or movies, not to mention live concerts and such.
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The American counterparts are very lazy in comparison. They just want to sit, do nothing and earn money selling "copies" and sending lawyers. Well this at least from the record labels, the real culprit here. The artists themselves should know better and get rid of those dinosaurs of the past.
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In my opinion "copyright" is a myth, they want to apply common property laws to intangible objects, that don't really ever exhaust. The knowing artist will know better, and know they have to do what artists have been doing in all the history of humanity: Performing in public to earn money. The making money selling "Records" was a short lived utopy, which was only exploited by the record labels anyway, leaving the artists as usual in the mud.
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So, Let the Music Play.
She is waiting in the air

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Reply #42 –
IIRC, the new law forbits to knowingly circumvent a copy protection. But if I rip a CDS200 CD in my Memorex DVDMaxx 1648 drive, I don't know that it is protected, since I disabled autorun, and the copy controlled statement is written in english, that I can't speak.

What much more frightening was that project to embed a special protocol in CPU themselves, that would only allow authorized programs to run on the computer, turning programming impossible for anyone (the compiled programs wouldn't run beccause the required activation key would not be found in it). I don't remember how it was called... a few letters, remember ? This one that stated that even the chip in your watch would be protected...

I quickly forgot it as a joke, since I thought it was unthinkable, since all airports, libraries, stations, colleges, etc would become outlaw for using illegal computers, and even more, universities, banks, NASA, scientific centers, meteorology, etc would be prevented to develop any program...
But after a second thought, I realized that this is perfectly possible thank to the professional computer market. Just implement the thing in all consumer CPUs (Pentium, Athlons, Durons, etc), and let professional CPUs free of it. Where can you buy Intel Xeons CPUs ? Servers ? Workstations ? All these computers found in companies would be able to compile code, and all future consumer computers would not.

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Reply #43 –
TCPA!!!
We all are against TCPA!! Visit Against TCPA
Brrr... Gives me the shivers even in melting-hot Europe.

~Dologan

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #44 –
I fail to see TCPA working simply from the amount of modding available on PS2's and xBox's  Heh, chipping your pc to run warez..  it just sounds wrong..

Bomb the capitalists I say
< w o g o n e . c o m / l o l >

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Reply #45 –
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Bomb the capitalists I say

yeah, I'm sure this argument gonna fly high on Sep. 11
The Plan Within Plans

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #46 –
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There is one thing which makes me unsure... My LITE-ON LTR-52246S recognizes a with Key2Audio protected CD as a normal Mixed Mode CD. I can play back the CD (in digital mode) whithout any problems. Does that mean that the protection isn't effective and therefore it IS LEGAL to copy it?

This is a feature of firmware.

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #47 –
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Omit repeated paragraphs.. stupid ipb 1.2 BUG

OT: It was not IPB bug.. it was some Apache2 mimetype/php parsing weirdness which occurred with the new server...
It's now fixed, but you need to edit your post again...
Juha Laaksonheimo

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

Reply #48 –
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A lot of people are going to be opressed with these laws, just to guarantee a safe revenue for a selected few. The people are not gonna stand this, its pretty much an aristocracy of sorts, and if they keep doing it, i have no doubt revolutions may start. Also not all countries are gonna accept this. Yes, most 1st world countries will, and most 3rd world countries in bed with first world countries will also follow, but don't think for a minute that everyone accepts washington's or europe's policy.

Actually the revolution has already started, though there was no announcement made.  Revolutions generally don't start with an act of motion, but rather with a word between two or more people.  The American Revolution didn't begin with the first shot fired, but rather with one person saying to another, "You know, we shouldn't have to live this way..."

And I think there may be a fairly strong incentive to fight this kind of action even in the US.  My previous posts reeked somewhat with "Live free or die", but that's actually an engrained concept for many Americans.  And not just for Americans, but for people in countries all over the world who live free and would not accept an alternative.  Freedom doesn't dissappear at once...it erodes.  The RIAA is the source of erosion in my country.  Consider them a slow mudslide, or maybe a sinkhole.  May the revolution grow.

The link you made to the EFF site made me realize something (though this wasn't the first time I've seen their site).  Notice right in the middle of their home page, there is a discussion of how the artists and producers can keep making money in this age of file-sharing.  While the RIAA only does exactly what you said...throw copy-protection and then lawyers at us.  It's a war of morality, with the EFF wanting to protect our freedom and protect the artists' livelihoods, while the RIAA only wants to protect their own livelihood.  That makes it easy to pick a side.

CDRippers could be a thing of the past...in europe

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IIRC, the new law forbits to knowingly circumvent a copy protection. But if I rip a CDS200 CD in my Memorex DVDMaxx 1648 drive, I don't know that it is protected, since I disabled autorun, and the copy controlled statement is written in english, that I can't speak.

Hmmm...that gives me an idea.  If I could only buy CDs with copy protection statements written in Chinese... "I didn't know it was copy-protected!  Those are words?  I thought they were just cool looking graphics..." 

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What much more frightening was that project to embed a special protocol in CPU themselves, that would only allow authorized programs to run on the computer, turning programming impossible for anyone (the compiled programs wouldn't run beccause the required activation key would not be found in it). I don't remember how it was called... a few letters, remember ? This one that stated that even the chip in your watch would be protected...

I quickly forgot it as a joke, since I thought it was unthinkable, since all airports, libraries, stations, colleges, etc would become outlaw for using illegal computers, and even more, universities, banks, NASA, scientific centers, meteorology, etc would be prevented to develop any program...
But after a second thought, I realized that this is perfectly possible thank to the professional computer market. Just implement the thing in all consumer CPUs (Pentium, Athlons, Durons, etc), and let professional CPUs free of it. Where can you buy Intel Xeons CPUs ? Servers ? Workstations ? All these computers found in companies would be able to compile code, and all future consumer computers would not.

There is no intellectual property in a corporation that can't walk out the door and be taken home with someone, no matter how much security a company may try to have.  After all, security officers are not ever as computer-savvy as the IT people they are watching, and won't know what can really be done with a piece of plastic the size of a stick of gum with an encrypted file on it.  If a security officer were very computer-savvy, he'd be transferred into IT and replaced with a new security officer.  Dumb, but it's often how it's done.

I would never condone the theft of intellectual property, but any scheme to restrict what can and cannot be done on a certain CPU will always be bypassed by people who would.

Anyway, widespread keying of CPUs would also potentially lock out all the open-source and freeware developers of the world.  Five years ago?  Possible.  Now?  Too late..there are too many of them, and too many of us non-programmer-types who would do anything to support them.  That would be yet another revolution...