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- From: stansbury-travis@yale.edu (Travis Stansbury)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Shareware Music, was...Re: Defeating SCMS
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 10:06:19 -0500
- Organization: Yale University
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- References: <1eej0gINN1i4@hpscdf.scd.hp.com> <1epe31INNfpv@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <1992Nov23.024931.3464@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1992Nov23.024931.3464@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> whs70@dancer.cc.bellcore.com (sohl,william h) writes:
- >Since there's no requirement that anyone originating a new recording
- >must encode the SCMS with a prohibition code, the idea of "shareware"
- >music is still a possibility even with SCMS. All then an "underground
- >band" needs to do is record their DAT album and encode the SCMS
- >with an 00 code that allows unlimited generations of copies.
- >Assuming the band uses a PRO-DAT deck, the SCMS code can be
- >set to any of the 4 possibilities, including the 00 code.
-
- I hadn't thought of this before -- but reading your above post made me
- realize that IF a recordable digital format gains widespread acceptance,
- SCMS will be of little consequence for this reason: as in computer
- software, there will be plenty of 'pirates' with the knowledge and
- equipment to remove all copy protection from a newly-release album (ie
- replace the imbedded SCMS code with 00), and then re-release the
- 'cracked' album into the pipeline. These practices are widespread with
- computer software to the point that anyone with a modem and a little
- patience can tap into a cracking groups distribution net and pick up the
- latest software within weeks of its release, minus all the annoying
- copy-protection (or so I hear)... Seems to me that a similar sort of
- thing would be feasible with digital audio - and even more so when
- personal computers reach the capacity to store and transfer albums,
- because then the audio pirates and the software pirates will likely be
- one in the same.... sound like interesting time are coming for the music
- industry...
-
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