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Stereophile
US-based print and online magazine that provides sortable listings of equipment reviews, software and music reviews, and interviews. Also, offers a yearly buyers' guide, recordings of the month, links, back issues and marketplace.
http://www.stereophile.com/
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Record Labels Beware
Study suggests that, if the music industry wants to experiment with selling copy-protected CDs, "there [must] be mandatory warning labels on the CDs or the industry risks seriously alienating consumers." By Jon Iverson. [Stereophile]
http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1482
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Philips: Don't Mess with the CD!
"According to Philips, recent attempts to add playback restriction technology to new releases is not just a bad idea: Because the Red Book recipe has been altered, the discs no longer qualify as CDs and should be labeled clearly." By Jon Iverso
http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1247
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Copy-Protected CDs a Nightmare for BMG Germany
"Blaming a falloff in CD sales on the popularity of CD burners, BMG Germany recently issued approximately 100,000 copy-protected discs in an attempt to thwart the problem--and had to take a substantial portion of them back because consumers said the
http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?671
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Selling the Benefits
"If DVD-A and/or SACD are to supplant CD, not only do their features have to be transformed into benefits, but the benefits consumers currently enjoy with CD need to be preserved." By John Atkinson. [Stereophile]
http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?681
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