Sony arms CDs with copy-protection scheme

[stealth_thunder]

BEIJING, June 1 -- Sony has started shipping compact discs armed with copy-protection technology provided by the UK-based anti-piracy specialist First4Internet.

The new technology will reportedly enable users to make only a limited number of copies of a protected CD, putting a stop to the so-called "casual piracy," in which case CD purchasers make copies of discs to pass on to friends.

"The casual piracy, the school yard piracy, is a huge issue for us. Two-thirds of all piracy comes from ripping and burning CDs, which is why making the CD a secure format is of the utmost importance," said Thomas Hesse, Sony's chief of global digital business.

Sony already has shipped about 2 million CDs protected by First4Internet's XCP technology, which allows users to make copies of CDs for personal

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Are you sure about this Sony??? I mean creating anti piracy disc is not going to work, if you do that u probably gives programmers who create decoder for disc format protection like Alcohol120% and others related like gameJack this people will hunt you down, they will for their ricebowls they will create exactly the same type of protection to overcome that security. This will bring this people to the next level of programming and become even more undefeatable.

Copy a few times and no longer can copy, in this way most people would copy the original data before they do anything to it, I bet it would not work, I rather they start their TeraByte Disc for us to burn crazy datas or for the future business backup storage world.

There's already some record about the recent pirated disc spreading across asia and news article have been showing that no matter what the government do to stop music industry or other medias from spreading illegally. As long as the data is still online, everyone would never stop.

Sony just stick to your digital media and leaves this disc along if you want try something newer our terabyte disc when is it you going to produce???

 

[Matthews255]

meh someone will crack that. give it 20 mins and it will be done.

anyway, when i buy cds i rip them to mp3 on my computer so its all in one place. I dont know where id be if i couldant do that.

 

[The_Magistrate]

It'll be interesting to see when someone cracks this technology (not a matter of 'if', a matter of 'when') and how a CD can be copy protected to only be copied a certain number of times.

Plus I can think of a low-tech way to copy those CDs anyways. Play it back in your computer and record the audio from the soundcard. :-/

 

[Articz]

i agree matt it will definatly be cracked with some time

 

[MicrotechXP]

Yes I bet you it will be cracked like them all! I hope this is going to take a while becasue I don't want copy protected disks....

 

[Origin]

We want our freedoms!

 

[stealth_thunder]

-.-""" this is really weird 9 out of 10 uses would buy and use pirated disc how are they going to stop us, brainwashed us with some music.

Securrom, VOB protected are some types of copyright protected media formats, this been already used by many many types of software like CloneCD CloneDVD and others.

I just cannot imagine sony would still waste time on this. Maybe they think of $$$ from comercial who would buy them from RIAA who would distribute to its people but if they do this, we reaction of those who buy them would be. Alcohol 120%CloneCD/CloneDVD/AnyDVD.

So I do not see any use of creating those disc

 

[chaganlal1]

meh someone will crack that. give it 20 mins and it will be done.

anyway, when i buy cds i rip them to mp3 on my computer so its all in one place. I dont know where id be if i couldant do that.

he said it i feel same way