Notes and asides...

[alexpgp]

From The Register, a footnote to a story about the prospect of AOL acquiring Red Hat:

"A November 19 report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that the network news shows spent 33 per cent of their air time selling something; on average 20 per cent of the stories were for books, TV shows, music or products their company produced" - "The Wages of Synergy" by Janine Jaquet in The Nation, Jan 7-14 2002 issue (p20).

...and then there's this, from a story on CD copy protection (emphasis added):

Netherlands giant Philips Electronics has lobbed a grenade into the audio copy protection arena by insisting that that CDs including anti-copying technology should bear what is effectively a plague warning. They should in Philips' view clearly inform users that they are copy-protected, and they shouldn't use the "Compact Disc" logo because they are not, in Philips' considered view, proper compact discs at all.

[...]

In a Reuters interview Gerry Wirtz, general manager of Philips' copyright office, said that the company would be building CD burners that can read and burn copy protected CDs. He argues that the protection system is not a protection system as such, but simply a mechanism for stopping the playback of music. This interesting claim allows him to contend that the protection systems are not covered by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act [...]

A position guaranteed to upset some entertainment industry bigwigs, I'm sure.

* * *So far, an inordinately large number of people have missed the two signs on the front door and the large sign at the counter that informs customers of today's holiday and our inability to sell stamps. It's a lose-lose proposition for us, whichever way you look at it.

Cheers...

Comments

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

it's hearsay, i admit, i can't quote a source other than the macintosh livejournal community
but i understand that, with current technology, copy-protected cds are unplayable on macintosh computers.