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July 20, 2004

The future of intellectual property protection

Via Opinions You Should Have:

Major record labels, CD and DVD manufacturers decided today that they would hitherto release only CD's and DVD's in permanently sealed, unopenable packages to combat piracy.

Joking aside, this is the solution to the weakest link of copy protection in the music industry-- the moment when the music is finally played. Obviously, once a one transmits an analog signal that people can actually hear, then one runs the risk of having the signal recorded (and maybe digitized!) and copied for others.

Posted by Dean at July 20, 2004 12:03 AM

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