From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 16 12:34:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8E437B400 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0236.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.236] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 178R0w-0003h1-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:34:14 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE40991.D7BF4A2B@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:33:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nils Holland Cc: Mike Meyer , Rahul Siddharthan , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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