Comments on: Labels to dampen CD burning?

New tools would limit backups from ordinary CDs and prevent burned versions from being used to create further copies. And the effort could also carry over to services such as iTunes.

[i_am_still_wade]

My CD, my rights

If the RIAA and record companies were any traditional business, they would have been dissolved a long long time ago. They treat the consumer like criminals, artificially inflate prices, steal money from artists, all the while crying the blues.

Don't be fooled, unless you are a big big artist, you make little from CD sales. And the RIAA has been rumored to faze out artist before they can make money on CD's.

We are not the criminals, you are. And quite trying to deny the rights of millions because of the crimes of hundreds.

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Easily defeated

This technology sounds like it will be easy to defeat. You might just have to rip your CDs to Wav and burn a CD from the Wav files instead of a direct copy. They're rather limited in what they can do and have compatiability with CD players.

The recording industry is truly pathetic.

BMG and Macrovision are Commies

Why not just limit the amount of times we can listen to a CD? Or how about Artists on a Sony label can only play in a Sony stereo. Honestly, what's next at this rate? I didn't hear anyone complaining when I was using high speed dubbing to make a tape copy of my led zepplin II cd. Now because I use a thinner peice of plastic I am unable to make copies of my own property?

All in all people, I wouldn't be too worried. Record companies will always try to find ways to protect their product and we will always find ways to beat it. The technology keeps getting better and better that eventually they wont have a way to block us from doing anything. Someone always finds a way around it and they should.

As for the previous post about ripping CDs to WAVs or MP3s, that will work on most CDs, sometimes the song copywrite protection even carries over when it is put in digital form.

Don't fret little ones, they thought shutting down Napster was a big blow and what happens, 50 more file shares spring up in its place.

Waste of money

All this money is being spent to prevent people from stealing information. But if you ask me, its a waste. The reason I think they will never succeed in preventing people from burning songs, movies, etc...is because if a computer can read the disc, it can copy the disc. That much to it. So in theory, to destory stealing information is to destroy the computers that can read the information.

Then your still in a bust when people find ways to read it through their own systems they build.

PS: I support burning your own cds for backups because I have lost many originals due to humidity, scratchs, and bad cases. To tell me I can't make a backup of my backup cause I lost my original or something happened to it is ****.