Will Your CD Player Tell on You?

[redrumloa]

If I had the money I'd sue them for unuathorised usage of cpu cycles, and therefore electricity.

[redrumloa]

IMO it's rather frightening what companies are trying to get away with regards to invasion of privacy. It's even more frightening how many people take the attitude "Who cares" or "If I don't notice it, it doesnt affect me". People really should educate themselves about what is going on in their very own home.

Could you imagine the outrage if it was discovered in the 1970s that the (mandatory) cable boxes provided by and owned by the cable company had hidden cameras that permitted the cable company to monitored you 24/7? Or if the mandatory telephones(in the US) of <1970s provided by Ma Bell included a bug device for marketers to easedrop on all your phone conversations? But since it's a computer, and the general public hardly knows where the ON button is, it's ok.

Pathetic. :-x

[redrumloa]

Thats ok, it will no doubt be programmed for Windows or Mac, it won't runn on the Amiga

If the RIAA has their way, you wont even be able to play the CD at all on your Amiga, or Linux etc.
 :-x

[redrumloa]

WTH are you rambling about?!?

Invasion of privacy. I'm comparing an obvious REAL ivasion of privacy in modern day, with fictional invasion of privacy from years past. The real is no better than the fictional just because it is higher tech.
 :-x

[redrumloa]

Play the cd in your hifi cd player rather than your computer....and hey presto no more spyware!!!

Problem is that for many people, their computer has actually become THE hifi stereo component in the house.