[Free-sklyarov-uk] Der Spiegel article published

[Andrew Rendle]

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Jim Peters wrote:

>Chuck Heffner wrote:
>
>>    Thank you for the update. Do you by chance have a URL for the Spiegel
>>article, or was it run only in the print magazine? 
>>
>
>Okay, I think I've found the article now (my German isn't too strong):
>
>  http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,167675,00.html
>
Looking at the translation by google, I'd say that is it (translation 
follows)

Andrew

--Translation by Google--

* Data garbage on the gift table *

/ Of // Hilmar Schmundt <mailto:Hilmar_Schmundt at spiegel.de>/

* The music industry introduced nearly unnoticed copy-protected CDs. Now 
customer protest is formed against the inferior Mogelpackungen.  *
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The music CD promised much: "Just the Best", so the title of the hit 
collection from the house BMG Entertainment, a Bertelsmann daughter. But 
when Matthias Heider from Porta Westfalica wanted to listen to the disk 
at its computer, he did not experience neither property nor, as 
promised, the best, but simply - nothing at all. Its computer remained 
mute. And also in the car auto-Stereoanlage the Silberling malfunctioned 
the service.

Hereditary east exchanged Heider the less commodity and now refunded 
charge because of "particularly heavy fraud" for the "acquisition of 
pecuniary benefits", which becomes committed in thousandfold number 
"professionally and".

The disputed CD is part of giving, with which the music industry in this 
Christmas business surprises its customers: Many new publications have 
unexpected risks and side effects.

Of the new album of the Esoterik MUSE Heather new facts over the Songs 
of the less-talented Boygroup ' N Sync up to some copies of the new hit 
single of Michael Jackson - everywhere the producers mixed digital data 
garbage under the music. The purpose: The strange admixtures are to 
confuse the CD drive assemblies of computers, so that these cannot 
select the data medium. Thus illegal robbery copying is to be prevented.

The data chaos is systematically operated: In the summer the German 
regional committee of the international federation of the Phono industry 
demanded to provide from now on music CDs in principle with the new copy 
protection.

Background are the dramatic recessions in sales of over 12 per cent in 
the first six months of this yearly, while the sales of CD burners and 
CD blanks shoots upward. If this tendency continues, then in the next 
year more are bought CD R-S privately with music taped than CDs in the 
shop. The music industry complains about income losses of over three 
billion Marks alone in Germany.

The connection is however disputed. Critics of the copy protection argue 
that the crisis has completely different reasons: The covered CD price 
about deters the traditionally important dte rodent clientele, which 
rather invests its pocket money recently in Handys, on-line fees and 
computers.

The copy protection threatens now to deter still more potenzielle 
customers. Because the Antipiraterie software is unausgereift: 
ineffectively against criminal ones and roughly negligently opposite 
honest buyers. Because some conventional stereoanlage turns out by 
scrambled bits from the footstep.

* Copy protection? For "professionals" no problem *

For decided robbery copiers against it the copy protection is not a 
hurdle. Apple computers ignore the digital safe deposit often simply. 
And under Windows it can be cracked with programs like "CloneCD" easily.

The evasion of the copy protection is not even illegal, but rather a 
confirmed by a document right: Each customer may pull "to the private 
and other own use" copies of its CDs, guarantees the copyright law, 
Paragraf 53. Often the copied CDs is even better than their master 
artwork and runs again on each stereoanlage, because the data salad is 
segregated when copying.

The copy protection is usually based on a simple trick: It offends 
purposefully against the industry standard for music CDs of 1982, in the 
industry jargon "talks to Book" mentioned. Is the more precisely playing 
equipment adjusted to this standard, the more probably does not become 
playing problems with not standard-conformal CDs. "copy-protected CDs 
may carry legally seen not the seal Compact Disc digital audio", 
ereifert themselves for Heider pedantisch, but correctly. "there a 
warning would have to draufstehen: this is a round disk with a hole in 
the center - however no audio CD!' "

Actually the marking obligation might become quintessential point of the 
legal argument. The warning references are usually tiny, only 
inaugurating understandable, and on the back of the CD covering hides 
besides somewhere - if at all. "often copy-protected CDs the customer is 
put underneath as Mogelpackung", complains Juergen Schroeder of the 
consumer center North Rhine-Westphalia. Nobody can prescribe for the 
industry, what employs her with her CDs, so Schroeder, as long as it is 
for the customers transparency. "however, a car with 250 HP is not 
permitted anzupreisen to conceal and that the engine is abgeregelt with 
100 kilometers per hour."

Now resistance against the abgeregelten Musikboliden moves. A customer 
from California complains against the disk company Fahrenheit, because 
she feels from the copy protection rear. In England organize yourself 
the protest over the web page uk.eurorights.org. Regularly activists in 
cities demonstrate such as London, Cambridge and Birmingham before disk 
shops and distribute handbills, on which they clear up over the 
klammheimlichen data slights-of-hand.

The skurrilste protest form originates from Joerg Dennis Krueger, a 
20-year old computer specialist from Munich. It offers copy 
protection-damaged to provide dupes their musical less commodity as 
electronic MP3-Datei - free of charge and therefore legally. Its Web 
address is program: www.gegen that kopierschutz.de 
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