Found this story over on Warp2Search, which points to a story over on the German site CHIP Online regarding Philip's views on copy protection on CD's. (partial translation with the handy fish!)
Copy protection mechanisms on current audio CD's have no chance of success, in the opinion of Philips's. Philips spokesperson Klaus Petri, speaking to Reuters, says its company counts on the fact that the refusal of consumers will convince the music industry to step back from copy-protected CD's.
Petri said that Philips could sue the manufacturers of CD's with copy protection (as managers of the world-wide CD patents), because they would not correspond to the standards. "those are silver disks with music on them, but which do not resemble CD's".
According to Verbraucherschuetzern, media reports and also the Elekronik company, complaints are accumulating over problems with the copy-protected media in recent times. They is resulting in that not all silver disks cannot be played in all drives. The industry would like to prevent CD's being copied by computers. Meanwhile according to the Philips spokesperson, new drives in CD Players and PC's resemble each other technically so much so that problems occur also in devices of entertainment electronics.
(If you can provide a much clearer translation, please feel free to post in the comments and I will amend and give you the credit... :) Ed.)
News source: CHIP Online (in german)
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