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Copy-Protected CD to Be Released
The Los Angeles Times ^
| December 17, 2001
| By JON HEALEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Posted on 12/17/2001 12:50:06 PM PST by StoneColdGOP
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: doomtrooper99
LOL, bookmarked now...
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To: ConfederateMissouri
And it's a good thing too.
To: StoneColdGOP
Didn't Charley Pride release a copy-protected CD about a year ago?
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12/17/2001 6:56:24 PM PST
by
jordan8
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To: jordan8
Didn't Charley Pride release a copy-protected CD about a year ago? Interesting story that. The album was copy protected everywhere but Australia, where 2000 discs were distributed sans protection. Even before the album had been released in the US some Aussie had uploaded the whole thing to an MP3 newsgroup and it spread across the world.
To: Leroy S. Mort
LOL.
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posted on
12/17/2001 8:07:20 PM PST
by
womanvet
To: Poohbah;July 4th
What peeves me even more is the Region coding on DVDs. If I buy a DVD in England and want to play it on a US machine, I can't. Why was this a good idea??IIRC, it's because that different sovereign nations have different copyright laws. (So that Chinese DVD player not only funds the People's Liberation Army, it promotes the globalist New World Order!)
Different movies have different theatrical release dates in different countries (in part, I suspect, to allow many of the thousands of prints produced for a normal U.S. release to be reused elsewhere once the movie isn't playing on so many screens here). If it takes a few months for a movie to make it to a certain country and, by the time it does so, the DVD is already available odds are extremely good that the DVD is going to undermine movie ticket sales.
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posted on
12/17/2001 8:47:12 PM PST
by
supercat
To: StoneColdGOP
I wish I knew how to disable the Supid-o-vision ("Macrovision") "copy protection" on my DVD player. It causes the image to get all wavy if I pass the signal through the video switcher on my stereo receiver; if I don't use the receiver then I have to switch cables around depending upon where I'm routing it.
What's particularly ironic is that if I record a stretch of "copy protected" video on my VCR I can play it back without the waviness. Hope someone got a zillion bucks for that brilliant idea...
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12/17/2001 8:49:55 PM PST
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supercat
To: jordan8
Hmmmm, I don't know. Haven't picked up a Charley Pride cd in a while, perhaps I will.
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