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>Message: 12
>    Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:52:18 -0400
>    From: "Stefaan Hurts" <stef_hurts@fastmail.fm>
>Subject: Re: majors and copy protection
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>On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:15:39 -0700 (PDT), "shoshana price" said:
>>  If you object so strongly to what they are doing,
>>  there is a very simple solution: JUST DON'T BUY CDS
>>  WITH COPY PROTECTION!
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>How do you know if a CD is copy-protected? Do these CD's come with a
>warning sticker?
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yes they do. i believe they are legally obliged to.
in France at the moment, there is a class action suit underway 
against the labels.

there is a warning sticker on the front of the cd and there is 
another technical box (next to the bar code) of
info on the back, like software ("this requires such and such an 
operating system, etc")

as far as i know, only Europe/Australia & Canada are making copy protected cds.

as far as i know, the US labels are holding out for the next version 
of the copy protection software which will
address a lot of the problems the other countries are experiencing...