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| From | Michael Bennett <mrhonorama@ameritech.net> |
| Subject | Re: Copy protection on the Caesars' Paper Tigers? |
| Date | Sat, 20 Aug 2005 04:26:56 -0700 (PDT) |
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Stewart --
I was just talking to someone in the biz about copy
protection. There is apparently a great deal of
tension between the labels/distributors and Apple
regarding iTunes. Thus, you will be seeing copy
protection schemes which won't allow you to
automatically upload a disc onto iTunes. My
perception was that this is about labels not wanting
to put all of their eggs in Apple's basket and
anticipating that competition is going to take a
bigger bite out of the iPod in the next year or two.
And using this sort of copy protection may be
calculated to try to get Apple to capitulate to what
the record companies want.
I want to learn more about this, as this sounds like a
good old fashion squabble between two businesses. It
may in fact be a stupid idea, but I'm trying to grasp
what's at the heart of the dispute.
Mike Bennett
--- Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Weitze at Home" <bweitze@california.com>
>
> > Oddly, my new (used) copy of Paper Tigers by the
> Caesars will play
> > in my PCs at home and work, but not on my
> combination CD/DVD player
> > at home. Is this a known problem? It seems
> opposite of what you'd
> > expect from a copy protection scheme.
>
> Dunno, but I had a similarly irritating problem this
> afternoon with
> Natasha Bedingfield's UNWRITTEN. After I finally
> found the Helpfile
> on this poorly-designed disc-menu, I found a FAQ
> that included the
> question "How can I import these files into iTunes?"
> The answer said
> to fill out a contact form and they'd send the
> solution to the problem
> to the provided email. So I send them my junk-mail
> Yahoo account, and
> a couple minutes later, they send me these
> instructions: make a copy
> of the disc as WMA files, burn those to another disc
> and use the
> burned disc to burn the tracks to iTunes. In other
> words, here's
> exactly how to quickly and easily work around the
> very copyright
> protection system we went to so much effort to put
> together.
>
> The amusing part of this is the way they try to spin
> this as Apple's
> fault, even telling us to following this link to
> Apple's homepage to
> complain about it...when in fact it's their own
> stupid copy-protection
> system that's causing the problem. If they care so
> little about the
> protection that they'll tell you immediately how to
> override it -- and
> encourage you to burn the disc while you're at it!
> -- then why not
> just drop it entirely and make it iTunes-compatible
> in the first
> place?
>
> Seriously, have the majors *always* been run by
> morons and we just
> never noticed it before?
>
> S
>
>
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