This article leads you to at first think that content producers are failing to actually copyright their product – perhaps allowing it to slip into public domain or something.
Actually, it seems to be Macrovision touting for business. They obviously don’t think that they’re getting their wretched technology onto enough CDs and DVDs.
If a CD has the copyright protection that Macrovision has on it, then it’s no longer actually a “CD” according to the white book standards. It’s a disc that may play on your CD player, but that’s not the same thing – it can’t actually have the CD logo on it. Their technology is the kind of rubbish that frustrates consumers who want to legally place their purchased music onto their mp3 players.
I guess that with DRM being sown up by the major players – Apple and Microsoft – the long term future of CD copy protection is bleak. Oh, and their DVD protection can easily be sidestepped. The technically savvy who are able to rip a DVD and put it onto a torrenting site are not the sort of people who’re going to be too worried by “CP” appearing on the back of the DVD they’re ripping.