[linux-audio-user] SCMS concerns

[Anahata]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:47:19AM -0400, Rob wrote:

> I haven't tried it under Linux (hoping it was a Windows driver thing),
> but the Roland UA-30 (USB outboard thingy) records silence under Windows
> if you try 
> to record a SCMS-restricted digital signal.

Even so, the first generation recording (from Mic to MD) is set for 1 copy
and should be recordable to a sound card - or are you saying that didn't
work either?

> I seem to remember that some iteration of the SB Live did the same and
> that it *was* a driver thing (a little dialog box would pop up saying
> "Copy Restricted" or something.)  So you might have to get either
> something high-end or something cheap and Taiwanese for it to ignore
> SCMS.

Geven that we're in a Linux context here, surely SCMS would be
ideologically anathema to a typical open-source driver developer 
and they wouldn't implement it?

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