Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:33:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Nils Holland <nils@daemon.tisys.org> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? Message-ID: <3CE40991.D7BF4A2B@mindspring.com> 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>
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Nils Holland wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:52:36PM -0500, Mike Meyer stood up and spoke: > > Finally, people who own Mac's that came with flatpanel displays have > > discovered that these not-quite-CD things will cause their Mac to lock > > the CD drive, requiring a technician to get the thing to release. > > 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. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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