Posts by Russell Brown
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are you sure its copy protection thats stopping it being playedin your car stereo. as an engineer I deal with these issues for my work. I burn cds on some burners and they won't play in car stereos, others will.
there is no reason through copy protection that a cd should not play in a completely legitimate player if the thing is working correctly.
Happy to help here ...
The so-called Cactus Data Shield technology was used on music CDs by EMI and BMG. It was intended to prevent any form of copying, including ripping to MP3. But:
Unfortunately, some copy-protected audio CDs have the nasty side effect of not playing at all on some car CD players, DVD players, Apple Macintosh computers, or videogame consoles capable of playing music disks, like Microsoft's Xbox or Sony's PlayStation 2.
EMI were bullshitting that they'd completely phase out real CDs (the Cactus discs weren't red book compliant) and only release in CDS format. Before long, of course, they remembered that they actually needed customers to pay them money ...
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russell can you give me some more technical info on your vodafone issues as per an earlier question to you. I've no experience of the faults in their system so can't offer technical critique till someone does outline a real world example.
CheersAll their tunes come with Windows Media DRM, which imposes various rules on their use, requires online authorisation for them to be moved to another device, and most of all doesn't work on a Mac.
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I don't blame Labour for attempting to blacken John Key, they've got nothing to lose, but I can't understand intelligent observers falling for such obviously desperate spin.
I was fairly appalled by Clark's attempted hit on Key last week, and said so, but I'm not sure what the rest of your rant means.
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Holy crap. I missed the interview with Peter Low on Morning Report today.
He admits to hiring triad members for personal security ("I got money, I can do anything") then loses it ("don't make me angry!") when Sean Plunket calmly asks him "WTF?".
Plunket's been quite good value during the recent craziness, actually.
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Bolger really is the statesman Moore wished he was.
Them's wise words.
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why we haven't seen any law suits suing people who transferred their vinyl to cd and mp3. has anyone been prosecuted for transfering their cds to mp3 yet? its legal isn't it?
Only since the most recent Copyright Amendment Bill finally blessed format-shifting -- until this year it was illegal copying. But a record company can, in circumstances that remain unclear, still opt out. And you can only do it for yourself or a family member. You can only make a single copy in each format..
And you can't breach a technical protection measure to do it: in that case you have to write to the record company seeking relief from the TPM, then, if you don't get it, you can take your CD to a librarian or other "qualified person", and she will do it for you, probably on a cost-recovery basis.
Apart from all that; totally legit.
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Sorry guys, but I cannot think of that quote - could you please pass it on? Ta
I'm damned if I can find the exact wording, but Bolger is reputed to have mused that he could have harnessed latent resentment over Treaty issues, "but then how would I govern the country tomorrow?"
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The difference? The electoral system. If National continue as they have done, raising hopes that can't be met, they will soon be as unpopular as Bolger/Richardson in 92/93, and MMP will mean a one-term government.
It's like a game of chicken: how long can National lament road user charges without talking about road pricing?
Brash's 2004 speech to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce was nothing if not blunt: people should pay to use roads.
In Key's speech to the Road Transport Forum last year, he briefly granted that "we need to look at other forms of road pricing as well" before saying "These are topics for another day."
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Intersesting that you're thinking of the Kiwis Care phenomenon too. What was it about? At the time it felt like union-bashing.
It was, but in a weird "we're not sure what it is but we're not going to take it any more" way.
Muldoon was apparently pretty happy about it.
Whatever, your date is three years out - according to the National Sound Archives that march occurred on March 4 1981.
Duh. I remembered it as later. Fixed now.
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Jim Bolger was smart enough to understand that.
You know, I wrote that without even thinking of Bolger's famous quote. But yes, he did understand that.
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