New CD won't play

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:43:05 PDT 2004


Feigning erudition, Federico Voges wrote:

[PGP noise snipped]

% >Congratulations. You've just been bitten by RIAA and digital rights
% >management, that is, by RIAA managing your digital rights and deciding
% >on your behalf where you can play your music. I'd return the CD as
% >defective, because it *is* defective.
% 
% Am I wrong or some time ago Philips was about to file a lawsuit against
% the RIAA and/or record labels for distributing those discs with the
% "Compact Disc" logo  when in fact where in violation of the specs??

Philips made some sort of noise about it, but I don't recall the
details. They weren't happy about their market being gutted this way.

Kurt
-- 
"Grub first, then ethics."
		-- Bertolt Brecht


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