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Please note that these CD campaign pages have been frozen as of 14-1-2005, and will not be updated for the time being. However, they will still remain here as an information resource for people still encountering problems with their CDs. |
Corrupt audio discs, aka "Copy-Protected CDs"
Links + Background Reading
Here are a list of links that we have found interesting or relevant. Please note, however, that these only scratch the surface of the information that is available. You will find many more articles on any subject of your choosing by doing searches on Google or other search engines.
International campaign sites:
A US site keeping a list of corrupt CDs for the US marketA German campaign with an impressive bad-CD database (from c't magazine)
A Norwegian campaign based on creating a petition. See also their English-language petition, launched Oct-2004.
A Swedish campaign, mostly in Swedish, but with a few English pages
A Brazilian campaign that successfully sued EMI and Sony
A Canadian campaign site
A Finnish campaign site (Electronic Frontier Finland)
A New Zealand campaign site
A French campaign site
An Israeli campaign site, in Hebrew
Another UK campaign -- with a forum
A smaller Canadian campaign
A French consumer site with a 'corrupt CD' section (type 'CD' into the 'recherche' box)
Another German campaign with a database of bad CDs
Yet another German campaign ... and another.
DigitalConsumer -- campaigning for fair use rights
Downhill Battle -- a well-organised campaign promoting major change in the record industry.
A campaign persuading people to stop buying CDs altogether!
Other lists of links:
MIT's CD copy-protection pageCD Media World's list of CD-protection links
Technical descriptions of the CD format and analysis:
Some UNIX software to do standards-conformance testing of CDsDiscTronics' guide to the various CD standards
An explanation of Reed-Solomon error-correction codes
A posting to our mailing list
An article looking at the Macrovision/Midbar Cactus 200 format in depth
Recent articles:
The BBC report that Sony have given up copy-controlled CD releasesThe Register's detailed review of Cactus-300 v7, a new copy-control approach from MacroVision
"Forget the spin, taping is not killing music" from the Sydney Morning Herald
Halderman of Princeton looks at SunnComm's MediaMax CD3 'protection'
A Canadian newspaper article that resulted from the Fedge.net campaign there.
An Australian article about the problems with EMI 'copy-control' discs.
Germans find laws which might be used to fight corrupt CDs (in German); see also here
"Fan to receive compensation for copy-protected CD" (Brazil); see here for an English translation
Dust Traxx and other labels disapprove of RIAA tactics
CD 'copy control' forces people to copy CDs, from Australia.
An analysis of RIAA figures showing the record industry collapsed after Napster, not before (see also our press release)
BBC reports that the music industry is losing its grip
John Snyder, board member of NARAS, says "Embrace File-Sharing or Die"
An economist's view of the situation
Computing Which? in this report campaign for 'fair use' rights to be put into UK law
Copy Protection Robs the Future by Dan Bricklin
A paper analysing corrupt CDs from Felten's group (also cached in PDF format)
CD Copy-Protection plans appear to be slowing down in the US -- success, perhaps?
The British Federatation of Audio take a technical look at 'problem CDs'
Dave Shapton's excellent article in Sound-on-Sound; scroll down to "copy rights, copy wrongs".
Philips gives technical backing to the fight against corrupt CDs [original link now broken, but see local cache or web archive copy]
See also this Wired article
Earlier similar story in German (Mar-2002: now no longer accessible)
A very good article in the LA Times [link now broken]. Also touches on the moral basis for copyright; very readable.
Watchdog's feature on the CD issue in the UK [link now broken, but see web archive copy]
Toby Slater's MusicWeek article, unfortunately not available on the MusicWeek site itself.
Musicians and songwriters taking a fresh look at the situation:
Janis Ian's comprehensive article, giving her songwriter's view on the internet-music and corrupt-CD issuesAn article on Exile Inside, a successful band financed by their fans and based on the internet
Humour
A satirical view, although not much more ludicrous than the situation we're actually dealing with"Can't do Shit", the future of computing -- again not too far from reality.
CD-drive compatibility with corrupt CDs
Tom's Hardware Guide looks at how well different drives can handle making backups of 'copy-protected' discsSome of the companies developing corrupt CD formats
Midbar Tech, Israel (Cactus Data Shield) -- now owned by MacroVisionMidbar's patent, including feature of damaging output circuitry
The Key2Audio site. This is Sony's 'CD copy-protection' system.
Courtney Love's insider's view of the record industry
http://www.hole.com/speech/ [link now broken, but see web archive copy]Michael Jackson corrupt promo CD-single coverage:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,63523,00.asphttp://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991336
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_media/newsid_1560000/1560497.stm
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/story.jsp?story=95661
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095931,00.html
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/22/1320242.shtml
A very good article covering most concerns, and also the proposed dual-format CDs based on Microsoft proprietary technology:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-7320279-0.html?tag=tp_prUniversal's announcement of 100% CD copy-protection within 6 months
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7299321.html [link now broken, but see web archive copy]SunnComm's CEO's views on the matter, and the lawsuit against them:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201-7311791-0.htmlhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/21610.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096761,00.html [link now broken, but see web archive copy]
Other relevant articles:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/22041.htmlhttp://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991367
General background from the media to copy-protected CD issue
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999998http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1489000/1489619.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1573000/1573041.stm
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6604222.html?tag=tp_pr
Theory and History of copyright
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_9/scott/What's wrong with copy-protection, and related concerns
http://www.toad.com/gnu/whatswrong.htmlhttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~graham/publications/ip_privacy/
Technical details of CD error-correction
http://www.key2audio.com/key2audio/_about/index.htm [link now broken]http://www.cdfreaks.com/document.php3?Doc=49
CD-R media levies in Canada, and European attempts
http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtmlhttp://www.idg.net/english/crd_copyright_393785.html [link now broken, but see web archive copy]
Comment on the case of Dmitry Sklyarov
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3QUH9D9RC&live=true [link now broken, but see web archive copy]Academic `chilling' effect of DMCA and EUCD legislation
http://www.macfergus.com/niels/dmca/cia.htmlhttp://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/293/5537/2028 [now subscriber-only, but see this PDF]
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,44344,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46091,00.html
DMCA-related articles
http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001091101t.htmhttp://www.techreview.com/web/roush/roush083001.asp [link now broken, but see web archive copy]
SSSCA text and related info ("They want to turn your computer into a WebTV, and the internet into yet another content-distribution channel").
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.htmlhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21577.html
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html
http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm [if broken, see mirror]
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/SSSCA/petition.html
"What you should know about the Hague convention":
http://www.cptech.org/ecom/jurisdiction/whatyoushouldknow.htmlhttp://www.hcch.net/e/members/members.html
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