"Those are silver discs with music data that resemble CDs, but arent," Philips representative Klaus Petri told Financial Times Deutschland. Gerry Wirtz, general manager of the Philips copyright office that administers the CD logo, told Reuters that not only would Philips yank the logo from copy-protected discs, it would force the major labels to add warning stickers for consumers. Most controversially, he claimed future models of Philips players would both read and burn the copy-protected discs. Thats no small threat, given the popularity of Philips current $399 twin-tray CD-ROM recorder, sold on Amazon under the slogan "CD Burning: Simpler than Ever." Both Philips and the big five record labels have declined to comment further on the matter, but independent label owners and industry veterans say the silence means neither side plans to shift course away from their inevitable collision.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50101,00.html
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