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Leader of Birmingham.pm [pm.org] and a CPAN author [cpan.org]. Co-organised YAPC::Europe in 2006 and the 2009 QA Hackathon, responsible for the YAPC Conference Surveys [yapc-surveys.org] and the QA Hackathon [qa-hackathon.org] websites. Also the current caretaker for the CPAN Testers websites and data stores.
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Anti-Piracy or Virus
I can only assume that in buying a CD with copy protection on it, that legally holds as an agreement to accept the software. However, I have never bought such a CD so don't know how it is sticker, if at all. I'm dubious.
From what I've read in recent months, the clued-up people have return their CDs and demanded a refund. Hopefully, the record industry will get the hint. Especially when I read about Mike Oldfield's last record was copyright protected worldwide (except Canada) in an effort to stop piracy, and the album appear on the internet within hours of being released.
I don't do file sharing anymore, mainly due to the security issues. However, in the 70s/80s there was a big push with 'Piracy is killing the music business', when blank cassette buying reached an all time high. Unfortunately what many didn't realise is that much of the tapes were being bought to record live gigs, and then swapped between fans. Admittedly there were people who recorded albums for their mates. I used to record them so I could listen to them in the car. But it didn't kill the music business.
Piracy as it exists today is not going to kill the music business. However, the attempts by the record industry to disuade people buying CDs ever again and move to download from the internet is likely to serverely harm the record companies. Bands and artists who go out on the road or make and sell their music on a small budget, will likely survive for many years to come.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Equipment (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Equipment (Score:3, Informative)
Copy protection software is a false security. The record companies have been conned into thinking that they can put this software on CDs and everyone will buy into it. Thankfully a significant number don't.
If you are going to have copy protection it should not be to the detriment of my listening pleasure (several cases have h
Corporate Stupidity (Score:1)
Welcome to this week's episode of "Corporate Stupidity", the program that shows you just how stupid companies can be when it comes to making money!
Today we take a look at SunnComm Technologies. They produced a CD copy-protection program for inclusion on music CDs. It is supposed to allow you to send tracks to people legally. The tracks would stop working after a limited number of times or a specific amount of time.
BBC News reported the following: