First off, the term is "ripping", not "burning". Burning is when you write data to a CD, ripping is when you read data off of a CD and convert them to computer-readable files.
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The patents say the system deliberately gives some of the digital code on the CD "grossly erroneous values", adding bursts of hiss to the audio signal. In addition, the error-correction codes on the CD, which would normally correct such errors, are distorted. So error correction fails, leaving tiny gaps in the music.
When this happens, a consumer CD player bridges the gaps. It looks at the music on either side of the gap and interpolates a replacement section. A computer does the same when playing CDs for listening.
But the computer's CD drive cannot repair the digital data going to the hard disc. So the hard disc copies nothing, or a nasty noise. TTR says the repairs made by a music CD player are not audible. Macrovision has improved the TTR system, says David Simmons, managing director of Macrovision's British subsidiary.
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There'll be a way around it, I'm sure.