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------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:42:36 -0400 To: politech@politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: Roxio "Toast" CD burning software may limit copying Send reply to: declan@well.com
Background on the Toast software: http://www.creativepro.com/software/news/1345.html
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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:20:07 -0400 Subject: Fwd: [X Newbies] Copywrite protection now in CD recording software From: Arthur Amolsch <aamolsch@shentel.net> To: declan@well.com
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>Date: Thu Jul 11, 2002 11:07:32 AM US/Eastern
>To: <X-Newbies@lists.themacintoshguy.com> (Mac OS X Newbies)
>Subject: [X Newbies] Copywrite protection now in CD recording
>software Reply-To: <X-Newbies@lists.themacintoshguy.com> ( Mac OS X
>Newbies)
>
>Just thought everyone might like to know that the latest update of
>Toast (5.1.4) has this paragraph buried in the licensing agreement. I
>would assume that this is present in the PC program EZ CD Creator as
>well:
>
>Just a few days ago, I retrieved the v5.1.4 update for Roxio's Toast
>CD mastering software. And was stunned to discovered the following
>verbiage placed within the license agreement's "RESTRICTIONS"
>section.
>
>
>Content providers are using the digital rights management technology
>("DRM") contained in this Software to protect the integrity of their
>content ("Secure Content") so that their intellectual property,
>including copyright, in such content is not misappropriated. Owners
>of such Secure Content ("Secure Content Owners") may, from time to
>time, request Roxio or its suppliers to provide security related
>updates to the DRM components of the Software ("Security Updates")
>that may affect your ability to copy, display and/or play Secure
>Content through the Software or other applications that utilize the
>Software. You therefore agree that, if you elect to download a
>license from the Internet which enables your use of Secure Content,
>Roxio or its suppliers may, in conjunction with such license, also
>download onto your computer such Security Updates that a Secure
>Content Owner has requested that Roxio or its suppliers distribute.
>Roxio and its suppliers will not retrieve any personally identifiable
>information, or any other information, from your computer by
>downloading such Security Updates.
>
>Note that these statements are nestled in the midst of a longer
>paragraph containing the usual stuff about not reverse engineering
>the software, with copy not directly related to these statements
>preceding and following these statements. Almost as if Roxio hoped
>that this language would not be noticed.
>
>This is apparently is why many people are having problems copying
>audio CD's with the latest updates.
>
>David Crandon
>
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