CD anti-copying technology
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"This CD includes anti-copying technology that is intended to prevent unlawful copying of the CD with a PC. This may affect playability of the CD on certain computer devices such as PCs and gaming platforms." http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006OA4X[^] I have ordered the CD, but seriously doubt I will be able to rip it to my media library as I found with a previous similarly protected CD, in which case I need some help finding all the tracks on one of these p2p network thingies everyone is talking about. Although I have an old hi-fi that will play CD's, it couldn't play the other protected one and I do not use it purely because I cannot play the tracks as part of a custom playlist and CDs get damaged very quickly if they are constantly being shuffled about. How fucked up is that? I have to steal the music I am paying for in order to be able to listen to it while the CD rots on my shelf! :mad: :mad: :mad: Why the hell did they choose to do this to this particular release? None of the label's other recent releases have been polluted like this as far as I can see. Go figure. The sad thing is that by buying the CD I am telling the companies involved that this protection works, which is the last bloody thing I want, but then I need the album in order to legally listen to the music; and my stance on the latter will not change. As Macbeth knows, murder leads to murder, and I don't want to step onto that ladder. Does anyone want to take my bet that the RIAA is ultimately responsible for this shit? :| My poppy's real pissed off.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
Rememberance knows no boundaries. Wear a poppy and uphold the silence: 10/11-Nov-2002
David, Can you play the CD on your computer or not? If you can, then you should be able to rip it by recording straight from your "System Mixer". I use MusicMatch[^] to do that. Another way is by hooking up your stereo to your sound card's Line Input and recording from that. MusicMatch can do that too. Regards, Alvaro
Well done is better than well said. -- Benjamin Franklin
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"This CD includes anti-copying technology that is intended to prevent unlawful copying of the CD with a PC. This may affect playability of the CD on certain computer devices such as PCs and gaming platforms." http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006OA4X[^] I have ordered the CD, but seriously doubt I will be able to rip it to my media library as I found with a previous similarly protected CD, in which case I need some help finding all the tracks on one of these p2p network thingies everyone is talking about. Although I have an old hi-fi that will play CD's, it couldn't play the other protected one and I do not use it purely because I cannot play the tracks as part of a custom playlist and CDs get damaged very quickly if they are constantly being shuffled about. How fucked up is that? I have to steal the music I am paying for in order to be able to listen to it while the CD rots on my shelf! :mad: :mad: :mad: Why the hell did they choose to do this to this particular release? None of the label's other recent releases have been polluted like this as far as I can see. Go figure. The sad thing is that by buying the CD I am telling the companies involved that this protection works, which is the last bloody thing I want, but then I need the album in order to legally listen to the music; and my stance on the latter will not change. As Macbeth knows, murder leads to murder, and I don't want to step onto that ladder. Does anyone want to take my bet that the RIAA is ultimately responsible for this shit? :| My poppy's real pissed off.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
Rememberance knows no boundaries. Wear a poppy and uphold the silence: 10/11-Nov-2002
The whole thing is a massive can of worms. My wife works for Sony UK and this sort of thing generates lots of calls from confused/disgruntled users. Things are not helped by the fact that on the one hand Sony are promoting consumer products that allow you to rip CDs, whereas their publishing arm want to discourage it! Personally I'd take the CD back and demand a refund - only consumerism can combat this form of "protection".
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
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Colin Davies wrote: David, if you don't want it don't buy it or get it. But I do want it - I have heard some of those tracks on the radio and liked them enough to fork out another nine quid for the album. I'm not going to sacrifice good music purely because some CEO's sat roudna table at a board meeting thought they could cripple illegal ripping. Figures have since shown an increase in sales of... wait for it... zero percent, yet they still insist on doing this? If it will rip in WMP9 then it doesn't matter to me either how, I don't care if it puts restrictions on it, just so long as I can get it on a playlist. Colin Davies wrote: Also I'm surprised this idea really works ? They add artificial digital noise to the "ripable" music that supposedly can't be heard by human ears, but it sucessfull on seriously fucking up Apples Macs - some people have had to return their entire computers to Apple just because they had the nerve to try to listen to their CDs. :omg: That's assuming your CD player / CD-ROM drive will even read the CD - lots wont recognise it. Colin Davies wrote: I'm sure you could make a physical player that could rip it. Sadly out of reach to people like me. I can barely add two and two to make five four. More to the point - why should I need to?
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
Rememberance knows no boundaries. Wear a poppy and uphold the silence: 10/11-Nov-2002