NEWS Bertelsmann-owned Sonopress, one of the largest CD manufacturing concerns in the world, has agreed to use and resell Macrovision's technology for discouraging CD copying. Although several other CD pressing plants support Macrovision's technology, dubbed SafeAudio, Sonopress is the first to agree to resell it to its own customers.
SafeAudio, which prevents perfect digital copies of songs from being copied from a CD to a computer hard drive, has already been in the market for several months, according to Macrovision. The company has said that close to 200,000 individual CDs have been sold with the technology installed, although it has not said which titles or record labels have been involved.
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OK, so Macrovision want to do this, but what about people likle me who only burn a copy onto a CDR, and store the original - incase the original becomes scratched. Do we get some kind of warranty on our CD (free replacements)?
11 Sep 03 10:04 Reply