Sony tests anti-CD burning technology
Found on ABC News on Monday, 30 May 2005
Since March the company has released at least 10 commercial titles - more than 1 million discs in total, featuring technology from UK anti-piracy specialist First4Internet that allows consumers to make limited copies of protected discs, but blocks users from making copies of the copies.
Early copy-protected discs as well as all Digital Rights Management (DRM)-protected files sold through online retailers like iTunes, Napster and others offer burning of tracks into unprotected WAV files.
Under the new solution, tracks ripped and burned from a copy-protected disc are copied to a blank CD in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format.
Is it just me who thinks that this won't work? I'm pretty sure as soon as those "protected" CD's are released, they also appear on various P2P networks. Besides, the disks need to have standard CDDA format on it; otherwise CD players won't be able to play them. We've seen many "copy protections" come and go.