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Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday September 16, @01:15AM (#1175)
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How is this new? Other companies have been doing this for quite a while. The only effect that it has is on the clueless people (who unfortunately make up most of the target market anyway) and on the people that want to exercise their "fair use" by listening these songs on their mp3 players. Those who have made ripping and distributing their hobby or maybe even a profession will certainly not be affected since they'll find a way to bypass this in a few hours.
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Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday September 16, @07:59AM (#1176)
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All this does is hurt their customers. The people who infringe copyright are going to just download the song off of a P2P system and the people who spend money to buy the album will be stuck with something that doesn't work in all CD players or their MP3 player.
Seems like a worst of both worlds solution.
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By adding DRM to the CD, they prevent the consumer from rearranging his music in the order he wishes to listen to it.
Back in the days of LP's, I spent many hours moving songs from Vynal to tape. Three from this LP, two from that LP, etc.
If the Music industry has their way, that capability will be lost. I believe that this is a direct attack on 'Fair Use'.
Am I wrong?
Tom
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There is supposed to be a standard for CDs. Make a CD by the standard and it will play on any CD player designed to handle standard CDs.
Any 'copy protected' CD attempts to violate the standard in some way so that it does not work on computers but works on CD players.
One trick is to have it look like data CD to computers. Another is to muck with error correction used on data CDs so rippers will do wrong corrections to muck up the sound.
It is easy to bypass these things.
1) Dissable "automount".
Most computers "automount" a CD when it is inserted. ( Mounting a CD is not like a meter violation -- bad joke! ) The computer sees it has a CD and if it is a data CD tries to make it available for file borwsing. This is called "mounting" the file system. If the computer thinks it is a music CD it may launch a CD player.
If the CD is not "automounted" the user is free to play the music or rip it as he chooses.
I do not know how to disable automount on Windows.
2) Use a ripping program that goes out of it's way to behave like a CD player.
So far I have only copied CDs for "fair use" to play in my car. I have not run into any toruble. I am not sure if any were copy protected! One or two are alleged to be copy protected. My copies are not!
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Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday September 17, @05:36AM (#1182)
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> I do not know how to disable automount on Windows.
Under Windows XP, RMB on the CD, goto the AutoPlay tab and selct what you want, I have it so that it always asks me what I want to do when a CD is inserted. Never, ever autorun, who knows what virus may be lurking within ....
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