full-disclosure - Do you really think CDs will be protected in future?

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From: godber at uberhip.com (Austin Godber)
Subject: Do you really think CDs will be protected in
 future?

Dave Howe wrote:
> Davide Del Vecchio wrote:
> 
>>I don`t know what you think about this, but in my opinion
>>will never exist a method to REALLY protect CDs, just because
>>I think that "if I can ear it, I can reproduce (and record) it".
> 
> There will never be a point where you can't make an analogue copy by
> simply recording the output.
> What the RIAA are afraid of is *digital* copies where each copy is as good
> if not better than the original. If they can make it impossible to "rip" a

However, if when you make the first generation recording from output you then 
save it in a digital format without DRM you only suffer copy degeneration on the 
first recording ... once you have the non DRM digital copy you can copy at will.

Austin