Intellectual Property
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- The Register - Congressman Assails CD Copy Protection
- Copy protection tracks implanted in CDs are a violation of the right to fair use of purchased music, writes a US Representative to recording industry lobbyists. (January 08, 2002)
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- BMG to Replace Anti-rip Natalie Imbruglia CDs
- "Bertelsmann Music Group has had to back down on plans to force anti-rip technologies on British CD buyers." By Tony Smith. [Register] (November 19, 2001)
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- New Scientist: NSync CD is Copy Protection "Experiment"
- "The music industry is now testing different copy protection systems on mass market chart CDs, with copies of NSync's Celebrity on the Zomba label being sold in at least three different versions." (October 02, 2001)
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- Register: US Record Label Sued over Anti-rip CD Technology
- "An unnamed Californian woman has sued US country music record label Fahrenheit Entertainment for allegedly misleading its customers by shipping CDs protected with an anti-rip mechanism." By Tony Smith. (September 11, 2001)
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- Register: Music Biz Patents Anti-rip Encryption Technology
- "Details of the method appear in a patent filed by IFPI. The patent, GB2357165, centres on encrypting the track time codes stamped onto every music disc." By Tony Smith. (August 17, 2001)
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- Register: Old Code Defeats New CD Anti-ripping Technologies
- "Macrovision's SafeAudio and Midbar's Cactus - both new technologies designed to prevent CDs from being copied successfully - may have been defeated by software released over two years ago." By Tony Smith. (August 10, 2001)
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- Register: 'Hi-fi Nuking' CD Technology Safe Claims Developer
- Skeptical report on New Scientist's retraction of its warning that Cactus could damage speakers playing copied CDs. By Tony Smith. (August 10, 2001)
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- Register: 1M Anti-piracy Hi-fi Nuking CDs Hit Europe
- "One million CDs have been released in Europe which are protected by the controversial anti-piracy system Cactus Data Shield... The Cactus Data Shield system is controversial because the technology could blow your hi-fi speakers." By Robert Blincoe. (August 09, 2001)
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- New Scientist: New CD Anti-Piracy System Could Damage Loudspeakers
- "It is called the Cactus Data Shield, and it is designed to add noisy garbage to all copied CDs. The trouble is, it could also damage the hi-fi and loudspeakers of people who play pirated CDs." (August 04, 2001)
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- Register: CD Anti-piracy System Can Nuke Hi-fi Kit
- "Sony's Music Entertainment division has been testing an anti-piracy technology that at best renders illegally copied CDs unlistenable and at worse blows listeners' speakers." By Tony Smith. (August 03, 2001)
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- New Scientist: Anti-piracy CD System Raises Distortion Fear
- "The first CD title has already sold 100,000 copies, but it is causing concern among audio experts because they fear that the music may be audibly distorted." (July 16, 2001)
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- Register: Anti-rip CD System Bypassed
- "Macrovision's SafeAudio technology, designed to prevent PC-owning music fans from ripping CD tracks onto their hard drives, has been bypassed." By Tony Smith. (January 08, 2001)
- 113
- GNU Project: "Can You Trust Your Computer?"
- Article by Richard Stallman focusing on TC as "Treacherous computing".
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- SSSCA Hearing
- "A Senate Bill will likely force the issue of adding copy protection to hardware." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
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- SSSCA Introduced in Senate
- "Wired is reporting that Hollings has officially submitted his newly renamed SSSCA, carrying the moniker Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA)." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
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- Senator Hollings and the SSSCA
- Discussion of NewsForge story about Senator Hollings' support of SSSCA and his money coming from entertainment industry companies, their lawyers, and their lobbyists. [Slashdot]
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- More On Why The CBDTPA Sucks
- "Yesterday we mentioned the fact that Senator 'Disney Pays My Bills' Hollings had finally introduced the awful CBDTPA bill. It's (not surprisingly) being talked about everywhere, but Wired has a good article explaining why the bill would cause tremendous harm to the US tech world." News and reader discussion. [Techdirt] (March 22, 2002)
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- Senator Brutalizes Intel Rep for Resisting CPRM
- "Entertainment industry lapdog Senator Fritz Hollings (Democrat, South Carolina) lashed out at Intel executive VP Leslie Vadasz who warned that the copy-protected PCs Hollings is obediantly promoting on behalf of his MPAA and RIAA handlers would stifle growth in the marketplace." By Thomas C Greene. [Register] (March 01, 2002)