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Topic: FBI Logo on CD = No copy protection? (Read 4786 times) previous topic - next topic
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FBI Logo on CD = No copy protection?

Hi. I was at the local Virgin Megastore today - just browsing to kill some time. While I found no music worth buying, I did see some CDs carrying the FBI anti-piracy logo on the back. The latest Enya album "Amarantine" has it too.

Now, since the RIAA is putting these logos on the CDs, does it mean that these titles are not copy protected? Why would anyone put a logo if thoeretically, the disc couldn't be copied?

What do you folks think?

FBI Logo on CD = No copy protection?

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I have 3 or 4 CD's (recent releases) with the FBI logo and they are not copy-protected.
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FBI Logo on CD = No copy protection?

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I wouldn't say that just because it ahs the FBI warning that it doesn't have copy protection.

How many videos have we all rented that had the FBI warning in addition to being encoded with Macrovision copy protection.

FBI Logo on CD = No copy protection?

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I've found that most, if not all, of the major label releases I have bought in roughly the past 2-3 years have the FBI logo on them somewhere.  However, I've only encountered 2 or 3 with copy protection.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't all of the CDs with modern copy protection include a crappy Windows Media based player to legally play the CD on your PC.  And these CDs always seem to have system requirements and such printed in tiny text on the back.  So this could be an indication of copy protection.  Although this may be too broad of an assumption.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't all of the CDs with modern copy protection include a crappy Windows Media based player to legally play the CD on your PC.  And these CDs always seem to have system requirements and such printed in tiny text on the back.  So this could be an indication of copy protection.  Although this may be too broad of an assumption.
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that or they are just enhanced CDs (with a useless waste of space data track)

the anti-piracy FBI warning is just there to remind people about copyright
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"You'll be seeing a lot of it in the days to come," the FBI said of the red-lettered warning seal that is described as voluntary and government-sanctioned. "Not just on the warning screens of videos and DVDs, but on the millions and millions of CDs, games, software packages and other digital media that are produced each year."

ESA senior vice president of intellectual property enforcement Ric Hirsch told TechNewsWorld that although many details have yet to be finalized -- such as the size and placement of the FBI warning seal -- the new label is key to educating and reminding people that copying and distributing copyrighted material is illegal.

"An educational message of this kind is in no way heavy-handed," Hirsch said. "It's just making people aware of the rights of those who created [copyrighted content] and that the FBI stands behind to enforce those rights."
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It's for "educational purposes", I see no correlations with copy protection.
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copying and distributing copyrighted material is illegal.
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It's for "educational purposes", I see no correlations with copy protection.
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Yeah, and from what you quoted it the same thing it's always been copying and distributing copyright material, however it doesn't really get into make personal backup copies. Allot of the whole DRM issue would be like a leaf in the wind if there was an easy way for people to make a backup preservation copy for their own usage without feeling as if they themselves were doing something "illegal" by attempting to backup a copy-damaged CD. Thankfully I don't have any copy-damaged CD's but with that said I have a large collection of VHS movies, and DVD movies that have a butt load of copy-protection and with some newer home DVD recorders even attempting to make a backup preservation copy will result into the unit flat out denying any such activity, the same can be said about some t.v. programs nowadays as I've seen my home DVD recorder belch about not being able to record copy-protected material.