[Free-sklyarov-uk] Corrupt CD updates, Jun-2004

[Andrew A. Adams]

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> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 12:03 +0100, Andy Buckley wrote:
> > The "effective" bit is probably best judged by looking at how prevalent
> > songs from "protected" CDs are on file sharing networks --- that's
> > surely what the record companies will be looking for. I have no idea how
> > this has changed since DRM's introduction --- anyone? Of course, it's an
> > unacceptable compromise for people who want to use the lossless copying
> > possibilities of digital music for personal reasons or who really care
> > about the sound quality, but I sense that doesn't enter into this
> > definition of "effective".
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> The typical definition of "effective" is usually that a normal person
> (ie, someone unskilled in the arts of the digital age) can't make a
> copy.
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> Regardless of whether  they have a right to that copy or not.
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But that's one of the major fallacies of the copyright middlemen. In a 
digital age it doesn't require everyone to be able to make a copy from the 
original. Once SOMEONE can make a perfect easily-copied digital copy and 
release it onto the net, the genie is out of the bottle and it pretty much 
can't be deleted. Of course what some of the current so-called copy-control 
regimes are doing is degrading the original so that it sounds just about OK 
on much of the standard equipment but doesn't re-encode very well into other 
formats. But as broadband becomes more common people will just download the 
original tracks instead of a re-encoded version and then they're screwed 
again. Who cares about the size of a track these days? Unless you really want 
a thousand hours of music on a small player you can fit a decent amount of 
music on the spare disk capacity of any modern machine even uncompressed.


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