That’s exactly what these “cribbing” sites do. The artwork site I mentioned in my last post is based in Brazil for that very reason. If it were based here, it would be shut down faster than you can blink, I bet.
Which leads me to another thought…if the site can get away with that, I wonder if a Napster clone could…
*Note: I am in no way seriously thinking of doing such, but, in the great scheme of things…
I was reading a artical from my pda (from an avantgo channel either cnet or pc world) about 3 weeks ago that they have come up with a way to copyprotect sound. It didn’t go into much detail but did say that when the music is digitally copied the result will be annoying pops and clicks that are not apparent on the original.
I personally don’t see how this is possible if you copy a cd directly to another (or leave it in the cd format). But possibly by converting it to either wav or mp3 format might somehow trick the encoder to insert sounds that shouldn’t be there.
The artical goes on the say that some music has already been released w/ this copy protection. Also it stated that we have the right to make a copy tape - making a cd or other digital recording is in a fuzzy catagory but even if we have the right does noth mean that the RIAA has to make it easy (or possible).
This thread reminded me of a rumor that I heard when Napster was in court, Napster was supposedly going to move to Puerto Rico because it was out of the United States so the RIAA had no recourse there. You would think if someone was going to make that up they could at least pick a place that isn’t under the jurisdiction of U.S. law. :rolleyes: