[argh] Smart CDs prevent massive copying, sharing

[Kellanved]

LOS ANGELES – “Smart CDs” will soon be hitting the shelves.

The CDs will let you make digital copies of your music without letting you take part in the widespread file swapping that has the recording industry up in arms. The first one is due in stores next week.

Anthony Hamilton's CD Comin' From Where I'm From will be the first smart CD release.

It will let owners burn three copies of the music per computer -- as well as e-mail copies of the song to a limited number of people. In addition, the disc can be played on a computer.

Recently, some record labels have released CDs that can't be ripped, or converted to digital files. But many of those CDs couldn't even be played on a computer -- and consumers shied away from them.
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In Europe these dumb "CD"s are the rule, not the exception. I can only urge you to fight against this ****. Many DVD players and mobile CD-players can't read them, the audio quality isn't as good as with a regular CD and the "smart" part is a lie. One of the CD's tracks is used to store the songs as DRM protected WMAs in lousy quality - this track can be read by computers.
The idiotic part is that the songs appear on the internet one way or another - why tolerate expensive (the Copy Protection has to be paid for) CDs with inferior quality? Only the buyers are punished.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. With Cakewalk...you can make a tape, clean it up and copy away

So what?

[DK666]

2. It doesent matter

bits are bits. data is data. If theres a way to get at it someone will. No worries....

[meegbear]

3. Didn't they try something like this a couple years back?

It was either CDs or DVDs. Anywho, someone found that if you took a black magic marker and ran it along the outer edge of the disk, you could make copies.