Funny, the article doesnt say how the pirates subverted the encryption in order to make copies. Oh, you dont have to. Listening, Kaplan? RIAA Behind More "CD-Pirate" Busts 09-18-00 GARLAND, TEXAS, U.S.A., 2000 SEP 18 (NB) -- By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes. The music industry announced what it called more successful raids on businesses alleged to be counterfeiting music compact discs using personal computers and CD-R technology. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said today that it pointed authorities in Texas to two businesses in Garland where CD-R equipment for burning CDs was found along with piles of allegedly completed counterfeits. The RIAA said searches at both locations were executed Sept. 14. A month ago, the RIAA announced similar raids on the home of a New York man and at a residence and a business in Phoenix. In those raids, thousands of apparently copied music CDs were found. This month, the RIAA said, members of the Texas Department of Public Safety, tipped off by the RIAAs anti-piracy unit in Texas, executed a search warrant at Garland retail store Kode Red and seized three CD-R towers containing a total of 12 eight-speed CD-R burners 898 allegedly pirated labels and 373 allegedly pirated CDs. The RIAA said the 12 CD-R burners had the capability to produce up to 720 CD-Rs every eight hours. At that rate, it said, the value of the output would be some $4 million a year. <snip> http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/article.html?s=singapore/...
"A. Melon" wrote:
Funny, the article doesnt say how the pirates subverted the encryption in order to make copies.
Call me slow, if you like, but I don't get your point. Since when do *Audio* CD's use CSS encryption? -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------
At 03:17 PM 9/19/00 -0400, sunder wrote:
"A. Melon" wrote:
Funny, the article doesnt say how the pirates subverted the encryption in order to make copies.
Call me slow, if you like, but I don't get your point. Since when do *Audio* CD's use CSS encryption?
I think the lines that followed reveal the author's sarcasm:
Oh, you dont have to. Listening, Kaplan?
A. Melon is probably alluding to something Kaplan doesn't 'get': To copy a DVD you don't need DeCSS. Bits are bits.
David Honig wrote:
At 03:17 PM 9/19/00 -0400, sunder wrote:
"A. Melon" wrote:
Funny, the article doesnt say how the pirates subverted the encryption in order to make copies.
Call me slow, if you like, but I don't get your point. Since when do *Audio* CD's use CSS encryption?
I think the lines that followed reveal the author's sarcasm:
Oh, you dont have to. Listening, Kaplan?
A. Melon is probably alluding to something Kaplan doesn't 'get': To copy a DVD you don't need DeCSS. Bits are bits.
Um, yeah, but this wasn't about DVD's, it was about CD's, so the "sarcasm" is totally misplaced, hence my "WTF? is A Melon smoking?" comment diguised as "Call me slow, but..." Now, if the kid in the dorm was pirating DVD's, yeah, that would be understandable. -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, sunder wrote:
David Honig wrote:
Oh, you dont have to. Listening, Kaplan?
A. Melon is probably alluding to something Kaplan doesn't 'get': To copy a DVD you don't need DeCSS. Bits are bits.
Um, yeah, but this wasn't about DVD's, it was about CD's, so the "sarcasm" is totally misplaced, hence my "WTF? is A Melon smoking?" comment diguised as "Call me slow, but..."
Now, if the kid in the dorm was pirating DVD's, yeah, that would be understandable.
Actually I can see this case being used as an excuse to encrypt all CDs. (Not that it would have prevented anyone from copying them.) They do not seem to care if everyone has to buy new equiptment or spend a few dollars more on CDs, as long as they can increase their stranglehold on how people obtain music. alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
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