...And All Thanks To Metallica -- Chris || Post in the forum
While record companies are busy to stop such things as CD ripping and file sharing programs, someone off of Capitol Hill has dug up something that will prevent record companies from making CDs that cannot be copied.
A 1992 law allows music listeners to make some personal digital copies of their music. In return, recording companies collect royalties on the blank media used for this purpose. For every digital audio tape (DAT), blank audio CD, or minidisc sold, a few cents go to record labels.
"I am particularly concerned that some of these technologies may prevent or inhibit consumer home-recording using recorders and media covered by the" Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA), Boucher wrote. "Any deliberate change to a CD by a content owner that makes (the allowed personal copies) no longer possible would appear to violate the content owner's obligations."
Um, some how I don't think he actually meant to come across that. Yea, Rick Boucher (the guy from Capital Hill that found this law) always goes out to the Wiz and buys 10 CDs and goes home and records them on to tapes so he can have those copies "just in case" the CDs "break".
Ok, let's just assume that he doesn't do that to make things easier. Even if the recording companies did come out with something to stop people from ripping them, a hacker would come up with something within a few weeks, if not days, to get back to ripping them. And I come to this conclusion that hackers all believe that information should be free, and available to anyone who wants it.
...And All Thanks To Metallica -- 
