From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 16 13:37:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45F1A37B407 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 13:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k6-2-300.tisys.org (ppp-329.wobline.de [212.68.71.50]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/sh-2002041503) with ESMTP id g4GKav524199; Thu, 16 May 2002 22:36:57 +0200 Received: from daemon.tisys.org (palomino-1533.tisys.org [192.168.0.3]) by k6-2-300.tisys.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4GKato2037021; Thu, 16 May 2002 22:36:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nils@daemon.tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by daemon.tisys.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4GKbWIZ011897; Thu, 16 May 2002 22:37:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 22:37:32 +0200 From: Nils Holland To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The road ahead? Message-ID: <20020516223732.A11860@daemon.tisys.org> References: <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> <3CE40991.D7BF4A2B@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CE40991.D7BF4A2B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:33:37PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD palomino-1533.tisys.org 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE X-Machine-Uptime: 10:33PM up 13:51, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01 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 On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:33:37PM -0700, Terry Lambert stood up and spoke: > > 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. This ain't no advertising! If I buy a CD player that claims to play media labelled "Compact Disc - Digital Audio", then I may very well assume that all such labelled media will be playable in my player. Otherwise, we're entering an area where standards no longer have any value... Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - http://www.tisys.org Addicted to computing since 1987 High on FreeBSD since 1996 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message