On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:25:16PM -0400, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > No. There's a consortium of companies, led by Phillips, which hold > the trademarks on CDDA, CD-ROM, CD-R, "Compact Disc", and a pool of > patents applicable to making compact discs and the devices to > manipulate them. I can't just burn a disc and sell it with the CDDA > logo on the side, nor can I make a machine which plays CDs and sell it > as a CD player. Or rather, if I do, Phillips and the CD Consortium > will sue me. In Candada, at least, the RIAA (or its Canadian equivalent), get a piece of the revenues from every blank CD-* medium sold. -- G. Branden Robinson | No math genius, eh? Then perhaps Debian GNU/Linux | you could explain to me where you branden@debian.org | got these... PENROSE TILES! http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Stephen R. Notley
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