Re: [dvd-discuss] [openlaw] Governmenttakesmoreextremelineinsecond"Eldred" case

["Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org>]

Babelfish translation (I think I'd be better off with my German dictionary 
and memories of Frau Schmidt's classroom)

D-CInventor Philips criticizes copy protection 

                          10.01.2002   13:18:01 
                          **time-out** in the discussion around the copy
                          protection for music DS have itself now with 
Philips
                          the inventor the silberscheiben to word 
announce. The
                          enterprise sees no future for the protection and 
sees
                          therein a break of the audio format. 

                          In   an interview with the " Financial Times 
Germany
                          " said Philips speaker Klaus Petri: " those are
                          silberscheiben with music drauf, which DS 
resemble,
                          but none are. " Petri expressed thereby openly 
about
                          what tecCHANNEL already before two years
                          reported: Copy-protected music DS break the 
format 
                            CD-DA and might not thereby the Logo actually 
any
                          longer carry. This covers itself also with   the 
legal
                          concept of law of communication media-learns. 

 
                                             Stone of the impact: Also 
HiFi
                                          devices, here Sonys MXD-D3,
                                          have problems with the copy
                                          protection. 


                          As owners of most patents for CD-DA the 
Philips's
                          does not want to proceed according to report 
however
                          against the protection procedures. Accumulated
                          themselves up the complaints of consumers, which
                          could not play the DS in HiFi devices. Since 
however
                          in 2002 and 2003 the Philips patents run out 
after 20
                          years, a law case is no longer be worth worth, 
meant
                          Klaus Petri. 

                          He hopes for the fact that the consumers would 
boycott
                          the protected disks. This has in Great Britain 
to it that
                          the copy protection is not " topic " more, 
continued to
                          mean led already the Philips speaker. 

                          Quite alone the Philips's could not pound anyway 
on
                          the adherence to standards. Sony nevertheless 
regards
                          an important proportion of the patents as CD-DA. 
To
                          this company belong however with Sony Music one 
of
                          the largest disk companies and with Sony DADC 
one
                          the largest D-CPresswerke ONE in Europe - and 
there
                          increases disks with the protection keyĆ udio
                          manufactured. 

                          As pure hardware manufacturers goes Philips's
                          another way Klaus Petri indicated in the 
discussion as
                          tecChannel.de that one wants to detect new copy
                          protection procedures in the future by software
                          updates for the HiFi D recorders of the 
enterprise. The
                          devices should be able to create then also 
digital
                          copies of the protected DS. For example with
                          keyĆ udio as in the above picture set copy bit 
after 
                          SCMS wants to respect Philips thereby however
                          further. In addition, with such disks with the 
Philips
                          Duplizierern a similar copy is possible. 

                          About the first failed introduction of a copy 
protection
                          this report   informs . You find the current 
status of
                          the protection procedures in this   contribution 
. And
                          which standards a CD-DA would have to actually
                          keep, is this   basic article to infer (never) 




Ole Craig <olc@cs.umass.edu>
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On 01/11/02 at 13:15, 'twas brillig and Michael A Rolenz scrobe:
> 
> One tantalizing question is the fact that the UMP CDs do not adhere to 
the 
> standards created almost 20yrs ago. IN that sense they are deliberatly 
> defective. I don't think any legal scholars have ever addressed what 
sort 
> of liability a company incurs by deliberatly creating defective goods 
for 
> the market place. To my way of thinking that constitutes bad faith and 
> should set them up for consequential damages if not punitive ones.

                 Apparently Philips is making similar noises, according to 
a /.
story (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/11/1816258 which cites
http://www.tecchannel.de/news/20020110/thema20020110-6415.html).
Philips seems to say that copy protection violates the CD standard and
therefore "copy-protected" discs should not bear the CD logo.
Unfortunately the source article is in German so it's a little
difficult for me to be sure of how strongly Philips feels about this;
IIRC their CD/DA patents are on their last legs so it's possible they
don't want to bother forcing the record companies to comply with the
license.



                                 Ole
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