From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 16 12:42:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E60937B41A for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g4GJfWH58208 ; Thu, 16 May 2002 21:41:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id VAA93611 ; Thu, 16 May 2002 21:41:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:41:32 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Nils Holland , Mike Meyer , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? Message-ID: <20020516214132.B92810@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , Nils Holland , Mike Meyer , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <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> <3CE40991.D7BF4A2B@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CE40991.D7BF4A2B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:33:37PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 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 Terry Lambert said on May 16, 2002 at 12:33:37: > > 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. And although I don't > > currently have any information about copy protected audio CDs (I should > > also read about that topic), I wouldn't be amazed if at least some people > > have problems playing these discs in their "normal" CD players... > > You should ask the EFF if it will support you filing a > lawsuit under the "truth in advertising" laws. As a matter of fact, Philips (the inventors of the CD) did speak out it, and it's mentioned on the front page of the EFF. http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020503_eff_thanks_philips.html -- Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message