PCWorld.com has an interesting article about the music business’ plan to implement new technologies to prevent CDs from being played on computers, or DVD players.
Coincidently, I am forcasting that my CD purchasing will be decreasing at the same time that these CDs hit the market. And people wonder why I buy vinyl:
This audio CD is protected by SunnComm MediaCloQ Ver 1.0. It is designed to play in standard audio CD players only and is not intended for use in DVD players. Licensed copies of all music on this CD are available for downloading. Simply insert CD into your computer to begin.
Well, that’s ok if you have a CD player to play your CDs on. In my case, I don’t own a CD player, all of my CDs are played on my DVD player, or my computer through my stereo. There’s no reason for me to buy another piece of equipment to play CDs when a DVD player (until now) does so perfectly fine.
I strongly urge anyone who reads this to not buy CDs with this type of copy protection on them. (thanks to Jer for the article)
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brandon,
this is not meant to be as rhetorical as it sounds. but, why are record companies punishing the people who legitimately purchase their cds?
peace, love, and democrats,
-e
E,
I totally hear you man. It is absurd to me that the major labels think that because I purchased a CD means that I can play it only on one CD player. There are going to have to be some very big changes in American’s intellectual property laws. To say that I can’t play a CD that I purchased on my computer is absurd, not to mention the fact that it’s clear that Fair Use applies to portable media devices.
When purchasing the rights to listen to music, those rights are not limited to only one device.
-B
P.S. Love, peace, and liberals