Thanks to Ludwig van moza we have learned that Sony music has decided to
stop using Key2Audio and Key2Audio XS. The protections used on audio CDs caused
to many problems because they were not compatible will all audio playback
devices. The protection also made news when someone found out that the
protection was easy to beat with a simple filt-tip pen. According to the article,
Sony has stopped the use of the Key2Audio and Key2Audio XS protection since the
start of 2003.
translated with BabelFish from French: Worse, the device also showed its limits on the ground of compatibility. Customers thus noted that their disc was illegible on their platinum DVD or their laser car radio. To satisfy them, Sony Music was until producing some unbolted specimens of CD in question. Obviously, these unforeseen scalded the editor. He has for the moment given up exploiting Keyé€udio XS, rising generation of process anticopie, developped at the point by his subsidiary company DADC and presented at last January. Even prudence on behalf of Universal Music. Apart from some titles (from which a compilation of the Bjé¶rk singer), the world number one of the disc excludes for the moment the recourse generalized to software bolts. That in spite of the thundering declarations of its chairman, Pascal Né¨gre, who claims a limitation of the right to the copy with a specimen, in degraded quality. |
The article however states that this does not mean the end
of protected audio CDs. There are still new technology in development and most
record labels are still considering copy protections a part of the solution to
stop pirates. Discuss audio protections in our Audio Forum.
Source: 01.net
