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They're not CD's!
They're not CD's!
Posted Nov 16, 2005 12:02 UTC (Wed) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624)In reply to: Don't want a rootkit? Stop buying from Sony... by kh
Parent article: Sony's rootkit: an update
Remember that these silver discs are NOT CD's - they do not comply with the CD standard and so cannot have the logo.
As this BBC article from the 4th November says, Philips are quite clear on this point:
As far back as 2002, Philips representative Klaus Petri told Financial Times Deutschland that "those are silver discs with music data that resemble CDs, but aren't".
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They're not CD's!
Posted Nov 18, 2005 2:16 UTC (Fri) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]
The Sony EULA claims that the CDs are Red Book, meaning that they do conform to the CD standard as defined by Philips. I would be interested to see if they actually carry the Compact Disc Digital Audio logo.
If not, the EULA is demonstrably false and misleading (bad news for Sony), if they do then it looks like one of the big five has found a way around the standards issue (bad for the public).
They're not CD's!
Posted Nov 20, 2005 9:20 UTC (Sun) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]
I believe the other poster was thinking of some other copy prevention schemes pushed by the major record companies which use non-compliant discs. The owner of the CD mark even threatened to take away their right to use it. This scheme uses a Windows misfeature and a rootkit to do its work. There's no reason for it not to be a real CD.