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Will CD-Burners Become Useless?
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Posted by: Tweaker
New Shackles on Your CD, Video Copying
In an effort to stem piracy, entertainment companies are placing new copy restrictions into their products.
Making personal copies of things you've paid for--as backup, for example, or to use in multiple devices like your computer, MP3 player, and stereo--may soon be a thing of the past, or at least severely curtailed.
Supported by laws such as 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or DMCA), companies are preparing to incorporate copy-prevention technology into everything from audio CDs and online music to premium cable television and streamed video. Some of these plans are already in effect, with different levels of restrictions on the media playback.
"Digital technology makes it possible to monitor, record, and restrict what people look at, listen to, read, and hear," writes author and law professor Jessica Litman in her recent book, Digital Copyright. "Why, in the United States, would one want to do such a thing? To get paid."
In pursuit of that payment, companies are trying a variety of different models--it's all a work in progress.
And the latest copy-protection plans are the most controversial to date--especially those intended for the music industry. The battle between consumers and entertainment companies continues on Capitol Hill, where two important bills are in the works.
Well, we knew this was coming!
Story: here
Source: PC World
Posted by: SKYHN
Isnt there always a way around it?
Posted by: Null Actor
There is always a way around it 
The DMCA will be destroyed soon enough. It'll just take a smart person to see the stupidity of it.
The US has labelled the music industry a cartel... won't be long before they go down the hard way.
Posted by: SKYHN
Yeah, I see Russel Simmons driving around in his "Cartel Cruiser" all the time! 
Posted by: Spork Lover
I have already seen a program out there that overlooks the Cd copy protection, and lets you copy anything(not sure if it does music cd's) It pretty much just creates an ISO, and you can make cd's out of that ISO. Already worked great for my friend.
Even with the latest copy protection....people can copy things, it wont take long for people to defeat any system they come up with...
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