[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[retard]

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:55:46 +0200, Daniel Gibson wrote:

> retard schrieb:
>> Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:15:15 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 
>>> retard wrote:
>>>> You must be young then. I got my first CD-ROM drive with my Pentium
>>>> 75. The first 1x external CD-ROM drives were pretty expensive. I
>>>> think one used to cost around $600..800.
>>> Eh, my first CD-ROM drive was $1100 or so.
>> 
>> Was it that expensive? Anyway, the world has changed so much. You can
>> probably find a decent dvd+rw drive for $30 or $40 now. My original
>> point was that people like us who listened to CDs in the 80's quite
>> likely still possess real hi-fi cd players or integrated cd/amp/tuner
>> systems. These systems are unaffected by the cd copy protection
>> methods.
> 
> Not necessarily - I've heard of "copy protections" (they should actually
> be called listening preventions) that caused trouble on old as well as
> some new CD players (not CD ROM drives). Also Car CD player seem to be
> massively affected by such problems. Why the hell should someone buy a
> CD he can't listen to in his car?!

Ah, true. The reason (IIRC) was that the DRMed CDs also had a data cd TOC 
or multiple sessions or something like that. If the car CD player 
supported MP3 CDs via the data cd format, that made it "too intelligent" 
to play the disks.