Philips is threatening to ship CD burners that can copy "copy-protected" CDs, and hang the legal consequences of engaging in circumvention.
[The] protection system is not a protection system as such, but simply a mechanism for stopping the playback of music. This interesting claim allows him to contend that the protection systems are not covered by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and lays the ground for the mother of all sue-fests with the number of large and rich companies who are most certainly not going to agree with him.
