Logo to identify copy-protected CDs

Zardon

Record industry body the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has developed a logo system to identify copy-protected CDs.
The IFPI said an optional logo would be made available, either in the form of artwork on the CD or sleeve or as a sticker on the case, to inform consumers that a CD incorporates technology to control copying.

The organisation said the introduction of copy control discs was necessary as a response to the sharp increase in piracy, multiple copying and illegal internet distribution of recorded music.

Jay Berman, IFPI chairman and chief executive, said: "Copy-protection is a logical response by the music industry to protect its product from mass copying and digital piracy. The new, optional logo will be of practical help to record companies and retailers in informing consumers that a CD carries some form of copy control."

The record industry has come under fire a number of times in recent months after a variety of artists - including Ozzy Osbourne, Celine Dion, Michael Jackson and Natalie Imbruglia - released CDs that used copy-protection technology.

In many cases the CDs refused to play in PC CD-Rom drives and in some makes of CD player, and in some cases the CDs even damaged computers to the extent that they needed professional repair.

Lucy Cronin, director of the Global Entertainment Retail Association, welcomed the announcement as a "tool to reduce both retailer and consumer confusion with respect to copy-protected CDs".

But she noted that because use of the logo is voluntary, its success will be reliant on content owners providing customers with enough information to know what they can and cannot do with the music they are purchasing.

By James Middleton

skastel

How does this protection work? Is it like the kind sony developed that could be eliminated if one drew a thin line around the outer part of the CD?

Kelsenellenelvian

CloneCD here I come!!!

Sourcer_2002

Man like that will stop people lol

craig5320

Where there's a will there's a way

Rayder

As long as there is "what you hear" recording, it's a moot point.

Dividend

Hmm, I wonder if this is the same protection that "eats" iMacs, or something new. Either way, it's pointless as only one person need some cheap cables and a copy of goldwave to get it on the P2P nets. All it does is costs them (a little) money and gives them an excuse to drive the price up even more.

DVDKingdom

I have a will to put record companies who use
copy protected CD's out of business, like that will happen

I seem to recall a law that says I have a right to make copies of
CD's for personal use "Fair Use Rights". The record companies are breaking that law.

Well I think maybe those who are against Copy Protected CD's
should not buy that companies recordings & Boycott artists
who support it.

R1UK

Again money wasted on protection [rackets?] that could be used to subsidies CD,s and bring the price down. That seems something they just never want to do. Given the choice of a ahem "pirate" music CDs at £2 or a genuine at £5 , yes i would by the genuine article. Ok theres always some who would not, their choice imo, but its something the music industry are never going to try? Or is it because it would show how cheap a genuine CD can be made for? Its an old argument, but again it will not vanish because they seem to eager too spend money on an impossible task?

oznob

Somewhere sitting in the dark is someone that is working on the way to overcome this latest news on CD protection.........they aren't the first and I can guarantee they won't be the last either............