This is hilarous - Sony's new copy-proof CDs

Tanjy wrote on 6/15/2002, 1:20 AM
I hope this isn't too off topic, but it is a follow up to my discussion re the (il)legalities of ripping CDs and DVDs.

Two months ago Sony released a "revolutionary" CD in Europe that's supposed to be copy-proof and they featured Celine Dion's new album "A New Day has Come" as an example. The company that created this brilliant super-secret technology (dubbed Cactus Data Shield) is called Midbar and it boasted that it released more than 10 million of these babies in US and Europe.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-835841.html

But someone quickly found that if you take a magic marker and scribble around the rim ... presto! It copies like a dream.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-918273.html

Now here's how Sony is fighting back:
http://bbspot.com/News/2002/05/markers.html

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 6/15/2002, 8:01 AM
That's SO funny! Personally I wouldn't lose any sleep if Sony went belly up tomorrow. Ban magic markers, what's next ban paper clips or white-out?
seeker wrote on 6/17/2002, 4:08 AM
Tanjy,

In your message you said, " Now here's how Sony is fighting back:
http://bbspot.com/News/2002/05/markers.html "

It is hilarious, as you said, but unfortunately it is untrue. And some people falsely quoted in the "article" might consider it to be slanderous rather than hilarious, including Ralph Hughes of Sony Music, Senator Fritz Hollings, and possibly even Tom Stephens of the Sanford marker company.

The BBSpot site is an entertainment website and not a news website. BBSpot contains technical humor, satire, and geek news parodies. The article you cited is not a factual news report, but a geek news parody containing satiric fiction.

By presenting the BBSpot URL along with two legitimate C/Net News.Com articles, you actually increased the possibility that people will be duped by your post. Surely you don't want to mislead anybody.

-- Burton --
Tanjy wrote on 6/17/2002, 10:51 AM
Seeker,

I assume your message is tongue in cheek... like that BBSpot.