From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 16 12:41:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5CA637B400 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:41:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3102 invoked by uid 100); 16 May 2002 19:41:04 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15588.2896.146472.876567@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:41:04 -0500 To: Nils Holland Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? In-Reply-To: <20020516211542.A10910@daemon.tisys.org> References: <20020516004909.A9808@daemon.tisys.org> <15586.61471.456290.764885@guru.mired.org> <20020515211922.J1282@darkstar.gte.net> <3CE34A8B.7D999E2C@mindspring.com> <20020516091031.A2259@daemon.tisys.org> <15587.56669.382241.766052@guru.mired.org> <20020516192546.B8944@daemon.tisys.org> <20020516193049.G79514@lpt.ens.fr> <15587.65524.899611.798267@guru.mired.org> <20020516211542.A10910@daemon.tisys.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.55 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <20020516211542.A10910@daemon.tisys.org>, Nils Holland typed: > Well, I guess by the way the copy protection must be implemented on these > CDs, they are no longer really red-book compliant. As such, putting the > "Compact Disc - Digital Audio" is probably like lying to the customers - if > something has been changed on the CD so that it cannot simply be copied, I > guess the red book standard must have been violated. Yup, and Phillips has protested this abuse of a term they are part owner of. I don't know if they've done anything on a legal basis, though. It doesn't seem likely with Sony being the other partner that owns the CD trademarks. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message