"Don't buy copy protected audio CDs"
Reply #15 – 2003-12-08 17:12:37
What I don't understand is why titles are released protected in some countries, but unprotected in others. Even if the copy protection worked, the internet, being a global thing, would mean that rips from the unprotected version would spread throughout the world. I don't understand the point of copy protecting a disc in one country, but releasing the same title "in the clear" in another. Well, there are several reasons I can think of. They probably wanna see how much a copy protection will affect the CD sells...this might happen when they release a CD with CP in the US and without a CP in Australia. At the other hand, in rather poor countries the majority of people might have old CD Players, so too many people would be affected by this. Mostly in those countries people won't buy CD's anyway, simply because they can get it in special stores for very cheap and almost look alike with the original. So if they would put a copy protection on a CD, it would be even harder to sell original CD's. Why would someone want to spend more as the double amount to get a CD that probably doesn't even play in his/her CD-Player? Besides that, there are license fees which the company has to pay for the used copy-protection and since it isn't a big market in such countries there is no point of wasting this money...people that have money will buy the CD even if it isn't copy-protected and they would only loose their loyal customers...and last, I don't think that people in this kind of countries got T1 everywhere so that they can share it over the net. They might be happy when they have a 56k dial up...and I don't think they got flat rates after all