3rd March 2002 Archive

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• ‘Hi-fi nuking’ CD technology safe claims developer

  Other noise-filled CDs can, though - as the software biz has already admitted

  The anti-piracy system that was last week said to nuke loudspeakers playing pirate CDs this week... well.. doesn't. So says New Scientist magazine - at the behest of the technology developer's lawyers, it seems, if the language used in the 'correction' (journalese for 'apology') is anything to go by. The technology, called …

  Personal 3 Mar 2002, 12:16

• 1m anti-piracy hi-fi nuking CDs hit Europe

  Your Speakers are Toast

  New Scientist later retracted its report "that an anti-piracy technology, called Cactus, from Midbar Tech of Tel Aviv, could damage hi-fis and loudspeakers (New Scientist, 4 August 2001, p19). This is incorrect". You can read the correction in full here. One million CDs have been released in Europe which are protected by the …

  Personal 3 Mar 2002, 12:16

• CD anti-piracy system can nuke hi-fi kit

  Sony is already testing it

  New Scientist later retracted its report "that an anti-piracy technology, called Cactus, from Midbar Tech of Tel Aviv, could damage hi-fis and loudspeakers (New Scientist, 4 August 2001, p19). This is incorrect". You can read the correction in full here. Sony's Music Entertainment division has been testing an anti-piracy …

  Personal 3 Mar 2002, 12:20