New restrictions on downloaded music

[Carl Price]

New copy protection scheme by the music industry. Read about it here

[Colonel Sanders]

I think that is pretty pathetic. Not being able to copy our music? We already paid $20 for something they can probbably make for $.50(CR-s cost roughly $.50), I think we should be able to do whatever we want with it next. Maybe not share over Napster, but there are already a ton of Napster alternatives. How is it legal to sale decks specifically designed for CD dubbing? What about just recording a song you hear off the radio onto a tape, or directly to you HDD?

The last CD I bough was about a 3 weeks ago, I had downloaded one of the songs from Napster a long time ago. When I compared the two, the MP3 sounded great, the CD had constant static in the background. Not many people buy really cheap $40 CD-players and $5 headphones. To be really spcific, I noticed this static with a 2 year old Phillips Magnavox Wall-Mart special and $100+ Sony headphones(I think they were over $100, they were a gift).

Logan

[Xayd]

This was posted yesterday, I would assume this encryption has been defeated by now

Honestly, don't think it'll work. Remember Macrovision to protect VCR tapes? 9 dollars and a trip to Radio Shack defeats it, this will end up being the same way.

Xayd

[Werewolfdaddy]

I think it is absolutely pathetic. These money hungry pandering toads are utterly ridiculous. I hold their very existence in contempt. This shows their lack of respect for the average consumer. They are so overwhelmed with greed that they forget that without consumers, they are nothing. If no one buys them, cd's are just expensive frisbees. It isn't about quality; it isn't about customer care--it's all about the money. I don't want kicked out of this forum, so I am censoring myself.

[Gintaras]

100 people working on how to copy-protect CDs.
1000's of people working on how to go around that "copy-protection".

Enough said?

[Werewolfdaddy]

power to the people, brother.

[glc]

They didn't care that much about copying in the days of vinyl records and tape cassettes - because the quality wasn't there - so maybe you think they could come up with something that allows CD copying, but at a reduced bandwidth?

[Werewolfdaddy]

My thoughts on the matter are, if you pay $15-$25 dollars for a cd, you should be allowed to make a back up for it. What is it going to hurt them, if you copy your own music for your own use? CD's get scratched; it's a fact of life. I don't want to run out and pay another $20, because my girlfriend's nephew came over with idle hands. The average consumer doesn't own a cdrw. The money these companies have spent on some weak, soon-to-be-defeated encryption should have gone toward making cd's less expensive. Instead, they spent god knows how much money for something that the next generation of rippers will slap around prison style. People will still tape off of the radio. Besides, doesn't most of the new software allow for recording from streaming audio off of the net?

[Xayd]

It costs less to make a CD than it does to make a record or cassette, yet prices have increased.

If they didn't artificially maintain the high price of CDs, there wouldn't be mass downloading of MP3s. Why haven't DivX:) movies and VCDs caught on like MP3s, even amongst those with access to usenet binaries and broadband? Because DVDs are 10-15 dollars, which is perfectly reasonable.

Xayd

[Werewolfdaddy]

AMEN