Macrovision has released Cactus Data Shield 300.
To me it seems like the audio CD part hasn't changed much but the data CD part contains now DRM'ed wmas similar to files that are available in big music download stores.
If anyone's interested and doesn't care much about privacy: Here you can order an evaluation disk.
P.S.: Please no "Don't buy copy-protected CDs!" OT comments here. If you want to say something like that, feel free to ressurect one of the related threads or start a new one.
Full Version: Cactus Data Shield 300 released
That info has been up there for at least a year...nothing new, although I haven't seen a cds300 cd in the market yet.
I think this Macrovision news are actually more interesting:
http://www.macrovision.com/company/news/pr...52%20PST%202004
They are suing 321 Studios (makers of DVD X Copy) for patent and DMCA violation.
http://www.macrovision.com/company/news/pr...52%20PST%202004
They are suing 321 Studios (makers of DVD X Copy) for patent and DMCA violation.
QUOTE(bluewer than blue @ Jan 22 2004, 05:32 PM)
That info has been up there for at least a year...nothing new, although I haven't seen a cds300 cd in the market yet.
Then the recent news were about CDS 300 featuring Windows Media DRM. I've mixed that up.
Edit: Hm. Your link also mentions Windows Media DRM. Maybe just noone's interested in CDS-300, maybe that's why they published another news release.
QUOTE(tigre @ Jan 22 2004, 09:21 PM)
Maybe just noone's interested in CDS-300, maybe that's why they published another news release.
Probably!
I think that for average Joe CDS200 already does the job quite well.
Btw...CDS300 "Supports up to 63 minutes of music"...so all those >63min CDs are CDS300 free
There has been some change on the CDS-300 side, version 7 beta is here.
The article from The Register is quite interesting, especially reading that apparently Macrovision backed off from putting errors in the audio stream and now simply relies on session protection.
What was funny is that the Mac didn't care about this unlike Windows and could rip the audio side without a hitch.
But a phrase in the article made me tick " Macrovision can portray itself as the music consumer's friend, but that will count for nothing if Warner, EMI, Sony-BMG, Universal and co. - or, it has to be said, the artists and publishers - say they don't want to permit CD burning. "
Yeah right! I believe it, the artists really don't want you to burn your CDs from their tracks.
The article from The Register is quite interesting, especially reading that apparently Macrovision backed off from putting errors in the audio stream and now simply relies on session protection.
What was funny is that the Mac didn't care about this unlike Windows and could rip the audio side without a hitch.
But a phrase in the article made me tick " Macrovision can portray itself as the music consumer's friend, but that will count for nothing if Warner, EMI, Sony-BMG, Universal and co. - or, it has to be said, the artists and publishers - say they don't want to permit CD burning. "
Yeah right! I believe it, the artists really don't want you to burn your CDs from their tracks.
I think its posible to avoid the session protection using isobuster , nad if the program fron breack one proteccion are a years older than the protecion, what represents thsi situation in the dmca law?
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