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Date:      Thu, 16 May 2002 22:37:32 +0200
From:      Nils Holland <nils@daemon.tisys.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The road ahead?
Message-ID:  <20020516223732.A11860@daemon.tisys.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CE40991.D7BF4A2B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:33:37PM -0700
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On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:33:37PM -0700, Terry Lambert stood up and spoke:
> > 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.

This ain't no advertising! If I buy a CD player that claims to play media
labelled "Compact Disc - Digital Audio", then I may very well assume that
all such labelled media will be playable in my player. Otherwise, we're
entering an area where standards no longer have any value...

Greetings
Nils

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Nils Holland <nils@daemon.tisys.org>
Ti Systems - http://www.tisys.org
Addicted to computing since 1987
High on FreeBSD since 1996

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