An article on Wired tells us some more about the ongoing struggle of Philips and the record industry. Because the record industry is violating Philips RedBook (Audio CD) standard, the Dutch electronics giant has said to take actions.
Philips would make burners that would read and burn the "CD's" without any problems, it would also oblidge the labels to put warning labels on the CD's or even have them remove them the Digital Audio logo.
"Those are silver discs with music data that resemble CDs, but aren't," Philips representative Klaus Petri told Financial Times Deutschland. |
Gerry Wirtz, general manager of the Philips copyright office that administers the CD logo, told Reuters that not only would Philips yank the logo from copy-protected discs, it would force the major labels to add warning stickers for consumers. Most controversially, he claimed future models of Philips players would both read and burn the copy-protected discs.
That's no small threat, given the popularity of Philips' current $399 twin-tray CD-ROM recorder, sold on Amazon under the slogan "CD Burning: Simpler than Ever."
Both Philips and the big five record labels have declined to comment further on the matter, but independent label owners and industry veterans say the silence means neither side plans to shift course away from their inevitable collision.
"We're definitely going to keep putting out discs with copy protection," said Peter Trimarco, CEO of Fahrenheit Entertainment, which released an early test of the technology last year with Charley Pride's Tribute to Jim Reeves.
Well Philips is a big player on this market and has developed the standards, but the record companies probably don't care if Philips is taking these actions, beside that, most of their copy protections are already bypassed.
Learn more about this and read the entire article on Wired here.
Source: Wired.com
