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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle
EMI dropped copy protection in 2006 (in Canada, we dropped it earlier except when it was forced on us by other international arms of EMI). Other companies, I have no knowledge about although I suspect they have all dropped it. Most Record companies no longer manufacture their own discs anymore. EMI shut down the last plant in 2007 and farmed production out to Cinram. Sony BMG spun off production into a new division Sony DADC, and Universal sold at least one of their plants to Disctronics.
That's not to say the discs are all red book standards though. Discs with extras (ie videos) are multisesson discs which adhere to the blue book standards. There are a number of standards, in fact a whole Rainbow. |
From what I understand, the reason the original CD standard was called "Red Book" is because that happened to be the color of the binder that contained the standard.